Apple & Rants 12 Jan 2007 01:48 pm
Steve Jobs spouting FUD?
Last night, I watched a recorded interview that Steve Jobs had with Nightline on Tuesday night (9th).
Pretty boring interview, what was really odd was seeing so much of the top of Steve’s head. Half the interview he had his head down as if in serious thought… Public Speaking 101 refresher course?
Anyway, in the interview he spouted on about not allowing 3rd party apps for the Apple iPhone (or maybe the new name that is circulating on the rumor-mill sites, “iTouch Mobile”). He went off on a FUD rant with this: “You don’t want your phone to be an open platform,” meaning that anyone can write applications for it and potentially gum up the provider’s network, says Jobs. “You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.”
What a load of shit. Given that programmers have been writing apps for Palm/Symbian/WinPC for the past few years, and I have yet to have heard about a cell network going down due to said applications. What a load of pure FUD.
I like Apple, I like my PowerBook, I like my iPod. I like my Nokia phone that runs Symbian and the fact that I can write applications for it (go Java). Apple keeps this crap up, I won’t upgrade. Besides, until they correct what I’ve mentioned before, I probably wouldn’t have upgraded anyway.
Steve, leave the FUD to Bill Gates.
Steve Jobes knows Best (Ars Technica)