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Apple Set to Open Up the iPhone (Within Limits)


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#1 Nvyseal

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Posted 05 October 2007 - 08:38 PM

images/news/apple.jpgApple (AAPL) won no friends among the developers of third-party iPhone applications — or the users who downloaded them — when it wiped them all out with software update 1.1.1. But with the release of Leopard (the next major upgrade of the company’s flagship Macintosh operating system) only three weeks away, there are signs that Steve Jobs may be set to open the iPhone up to outside programmers — or at least those who agree to obey his rules.

The iPhone was open to third-party software from day one, of course, as long as coders stuck to writing within the confines of the Safari development environment and didn’t try to write so-called “native” apps — a restriction that some hackers took as an invitation to crack the thing open on their own terms.

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