Steve Jobs: Third-party apps coming to iPhone "Walt Mossberg’s interview with Steve Jobs at the D: All Things Digital has been covered in depth by Macworld's Peter Cohen and Jason Snell.

One important tidbit deserves to be highlighted:

In the open Q&A portion, Jobs was "asked by an audience member about writing applications for the iPhone, Jobs said that Apple ultimately wants both the iPhone to be secure and open without compromising either attribute. The last thing Apple wants, he suggested, is an iPhone that can be easily hacked or that crashes as a result of installing third party software," Cohen and Snell report.

"'I think sometime later this year we will find a way to let third parties write apps and still preserve security. But until we can find that way, we can’t compromise the security of the phone. Nobody’s perfect, but we sure don’t want our phone to crash. We would like to solve this problem, if you could be just a little more patient with us, I think everyone can get what they want,' he said," Cohen and Snell report." Via MacDailynews .

This is certainly great news, the iPhone will only get better by having the thousands of Mac developers making applications for it.

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  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 5/31/2007 08:45:00 AM