iPhone Round-Up: Software Updates Will "Most Likely Break" Native Apps; Sales Triple After Price Cut

– Apple has claimed it is neutral to third-party software for the iPhone: A lot of sites are quoting GearLog in saying that “Apple will neither forbid nor support native code on the iPhone/Touch”. However, it became a little more aggressive, and the second update reads: “Apple says “software updates will most likely break” native apps as they go forwards.” In the article Greg Joswiak said that Apple won’t go out of its way to maliciously break 3rd party software, but won’t care if it does either. When it was pointed out Apple updates the Mac without breaking 3rd party software, Joswiak said Apple has a lot more experience with the Mac.

— The iPhone price cut of about a third has tripled sales, according to Piper Jaffray. “Apple and AT&T (T) were selling an average of 9,000 iPhones a day before the price reduction, which would have put their quarterly sales at 594,000 as of Sept. 5. The two companies had already sold 270,000 phones in the previous quarter. To reach 1 million by Sept. 9, they would have had to sell 136,000 more phones, or 27,000 a day — a 200 percent increase” writes Apple 2.0.

— A free, open-source iPhone unlock has been released, reports Engadget. It took some hints from the iPhoneSIMfree unlock, but isn’t as easy to use. Engadget covered the process of developing the unlock here.

— Canada’s Rogers Communications, the only telco there using the same mobile tech as AT&T, has disappointed MacFans by saying that it’s not in talks with Apple to launch the iPhone, reports Bloomberg. “Europe is a market that is four or five times the size of the Canadian market” for Apple, said Neeraj Monga, an analyst at Veritas Investment Research in Toronto, in an interview…”I don’t think Canada is on their radar screens right now.”

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