[casual_games] iPhone therefore ... nevermind

[Jason Van Anden]

Dear Mr. Jobs,

Its the developers stupid!

OK, so I hope I did not understand you properly, but in a recent  
interview with the NYT (links follow) its sounds to me like you will  
not allow third party development for the iPhone ... the reason you  
give is that you are concerned that developers will screw up  
Cingular's phone network (I am paraphrasing but this is the jist).   
Let's be honest, this is not a QC issue, you want to control revenue  
(video, ring tones, music, games, applications, etc...).

If this is the case, of course you are entitled ... but the way this  
is bound to play out is that some other cool device with a different  
OS sporting similar features will spring up - except it will be open  
to third party development and someone* from outside Apple's brain  
trust will create a killer app for it instead and so on ... kind of  
like what happened in the early 80's.

Personally I think this is as absurd as restricting the music and  
videos you sell on iTunes to works created by Apple employees.

Please think different!

Jason Van Anden
Software Developer and Visual Artist
www.smileproject.com

Great opening words on this subject at Slashdot:
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/0430200&from=rss

NYT Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/technology/11cnd-apple.html? 
_r=1&oref=slogin