Apple to Support 3rd Party iPhone Apps

Jobs asks for a bit more patience on 3rd party support

When the iPhone launched earlier this year, Apple definitely had people excited. Apple CEO Steve Jobs touted that the iPhone would be a revolution in mobile phone technology. As news of the phone spread, users began noticing that the iPhone did not appear to have any support for third party applications -- applications that a user can download and install onto the iPhone.

While it was clearly indicated that the iPhone runs on OS X and that there were a fair number of unique and well designed applications, concern was growing rapidly over application support. Because of its powerful underlying operating system, the iPhone is a perfect platform for development.

During an interview with Walt Mossberg at the D 2007 executive conference, Jobs revealed that the closed nature of the iPhone is simply due to security. According to Jobs, Apple is looking into ways of supporting third party applications on the iPhone without compromising the iPhone's stability and security.

"I've used 3rd party apps. The more you add, the more your phone crashes. No one's perfect and we'd sure like our phone not to crash once a day," said Jobs. "If you can just be a little more patient with us I think everyone can get what they want."
Reference:Tuan Nguyen,dailytech