“You don’t want your phone to be an open platform. 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.”
- Steve Jobs in January 2007 on why the iPhone will not support third party applications.
“This is the biggest launch of my career. When IBM introduced the PC, it was good, but it didn’t take off until people started discovering the software. It’s these apps that will dramatically differentiate the iPhone from Treos and BlackBerrys.“
- Steve Jobs on 10 July 2008, On the occassion of the launch of the iPhone AppStore
Update: Bummer. My original source of the quote messed it up. Hence the misquote. You can see that Engadget Mobile have also updated their post. Apologies for the mixup. Thanks Rob!
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Rob