From what you are saying you'd think the iphone is the first phone OS capable of running third party apps ever. Other phone OS's have been able to do this for 5

From what you are saying you'd think the iphone is the first phone OS capable of running third party apps ever. Other phone OS's have been able to do this for 5 years and many of them haven't needed to restrict users so badly including Windows Mobile, Palm OS and in some cases Symbian.