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Originally Posted by Damien
Indeed, Have to wonder why Apple dont go all out and make it more like a PDA while opening up the iPhone for developers.
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Because it goes against Steve Job's ethos and his vision for IT.
Its not about making it a PDA per se, its about making the device consistent with fair use. You pay a lot of money for it, why shouldn't you be able to watch Divx movies on it, just Apple have produced Quicktime? Why be stuck with just stock quotes and weather forecasts and javascript applications?
And now developers have riled against Jobs on this:
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/0...pers_lock_out/
You can't rely on Apple producing every bit of software that users will need (say like a wifi sniffer) and with Apple keeping rigid control on kernel-mode apps, its extremely anti-competitive and anti-consumer. Put it this way, would Apple produce a wifi sniffer plugin, when that would discourage GPRS use and anger AT&T?