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> Rather, it was justified in terms of protecting the cell phone carriers I don't remember that at all. I do remember Jobs resisting the app store because he w
by cachvico 3y ago
> Rather, it was justified in terms of protecting the cell phone carriers
I don't remember that at all. I do remember Jobs resisting the app store because he wanted everything to be a web app though (despite resisting the move to responsive web design).
Can you provide a source for your claim?
- lapcat 3y ago> Can you provide a source for your claim? "Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up" is literally a quote from Steve Jobs. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/01/steve-jobs-knows-best/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/01/steve-jobs-knows-bes... https://www.engadget.com/2007-01-11-jobs-confirms-iphone-is-a-closed-platform.html https://www.engadget.com/2007-01-11-jobs-confirms-iphone-is-... https://www.zdnet.com/article/steve-jobs-the-iphone-and-open-platforms/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/steve-jobs-the-iphone-and-open... https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/01/att-welcomes-programmers-for-all-phones-except-the-iphone/ https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/0... https://www.wired.com/2007/01/why-i-want-a-locked-iphone-2/ https://www.wired.com/2007/01/why-i-want-a-locked-iphone-2/ Of course this just proves another thing I said, which was "Many people seem to forget".
- cachvico 3y agoInteresting - thanks! Seems odd to imagine a userspace app could take down a carrier network.
- OkGoDoIt 3y ago2.5G and 3G networks were bad at the time, and many phone plans that included data had unlimited data. The only thing that kept them up was the fact that so few people had data-capable smart phones.