Comments on: A plea to Steve http://gigaom.com/apple/a-plea-to-steve/ Mon, 28 May 2012 09:02:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Duncan http://gigaom.com/apple/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324324 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:13:31 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/10/02/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324324 I am in Canada, waiting for any news of availability here. We can get the hacked phones, but you can’t update them.

]]> By: tomjennings83 http://gigaom.com/apple/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324323 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:22:21 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/10/02/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324323 I have heard that they will be switching the future iphones processors to intel based processors wich would render 3rd party apps useless

]]> By: MacSpoon » Blog Archive » Я улетаю в Индию, Макспун остается работать http://gigaom.com/apple/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324299 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:43:45 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/10/02/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324299 [...] A plea to Steve – письмо Стиву Джобсу от одного из авторов блога The Apple Blog. Пишет о необходимости разрешить сторонним разработчикам писать программы для iPhone и об обновлении прошивки iPhone под номером 1.1.1, которое закрыло все известные лазейки для запуска сторонних программ. [...]

]]> By: Brandon Eley http://gigaom.com/apple/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324295 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:48:18 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/10/02/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324295 @Billy K

You’re right — and as I mentioned in my letter to Steve I’m very happy with my iPhone (and my wife is also). However, I think it’s a mistake not to embrace third party apps just because you don’t think other developers can make software as usable.

And if we don’t voice our opinions, how would they know how their customers feel?

]]> By: nfoo http://gigaom.com/apple/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324297 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:01:32 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/10/02/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324297 I really don’t need 3rd party apps either. But too bad they’re not selling an unlocked verision.

That’s what I will never accept.

I’d pay a premium for an unlocked iPhone.

]]> By: Billy K http://gigaom.com/apple/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324298 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:09:27 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/10/02/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324298 3rd PArty whiners seriously need to let it go. The iPhone was sold with no promise of 3rd party apps. You bought two anyway. There may someday be an SDK. Maybe not. End of story, get over it.

]]> By: Tee http://gigaom.com/apple/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324296 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:07:24 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/10/02/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324296 couldn’t care less about an open iPhone. An open iPod Touch however! Where hacks can’t possibly hurt phone profits would be wonderful.

Lock the phone free the touch!

]]> By: nfoo http://gigaom.com/apple/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324322 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:29:22 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/10/02/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324322 #5 What? Waste? You’re kidding, right?

Seriously, a real letter has a lot more impact than a mail – maybe send through the feedback form.

Apple has, for example, a policy to answer every letter they receive. Not so with email.

Would everybody write a letter because of the iPhone, they would certainly hve a lot more work and this means some impact … more than email …

]]> By: Steve http://gigaom.com/apple/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324294 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:45:20 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/10/02/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324294 Yes, great letter. The iphone is a brilliant yet simple device. Like the newton it has an inherent beauty yet the newton ( especially the newton 2000 took 3rd party apps to a whole new level. Truly, a product ahead of it’s time. Unfortunately, Jobs cut the Newton and the 3rd party apps back in 1998. However, there are still people like myself who still use them. The Iphone 3rd party apps are great. People want to install their own apps. People want to install widgets. Running Web apps is too limiting – especially where there is no wifi or edge. As we know there are great native apps like Summerboard/ Springboard and Voice notes. Steve Jobs is ignorant to not know the viability of the Iphone for native 3rd party software and this may reduce future Iphone users.

This letter should accompany a petition for all iphone owner who want Apple to release the SDK for 3rd party developers to create native applications.

]]> By: azzamallow http://gigaom.com/apple/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324293 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:09:40 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/10/02/a-plea-to-steve/#comment-324293 apple should “think different”…and do what most mobile devices do…they are thinking different.

I dont think it should change, i think they should at least allow users to add a a link to the menu and customise the menu as they see fit, to give it more of an application feel. There are heaps of issues in opening up 3rd party dev to the iPhone, stuff that apple are not interested in dealing with right now (although they are dealing with the hacking issues). Security is the concern, and apple cannot guarantee the user experience if others are putting applications on their platform. Its about the user experience. Things wont “just work” as they will want them to, at least till they can guarantee that then it wont change, and ppl will keep whinging.

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