Come on Apple, don’t stifle innovation…
August 2nd, 2007 by ken
Very cool. I’m quoted in today’s Boston Globe. It’s a decent article about the iPhone being closed to 3rd party developers. It’s humbling to be quoted before Bob Borchers, “Apple’s senior director of iPhone worldwide product marketing”.
It’s odd to think of Apple as potentially stifling innovation. Sometimes they seem like the only innovative company around. My point here is that each 3rd party app that could be written for the iPhone would immediately increase the usefulness of the phone. Bray (the reporter from the Globe) asked me “Why do we need 3rd party apps? What kind of apps might be useful on the iPhone?” The answer to this question is that the possibilities are only limited by the imaginations of the developers. That’s part of what makes software development so exciting: The real killer apps are never predictable. You could be vague and say: business apps, creative tools, GAMES! But the real innovative ones will catch us all by surprise; I promise. And you can quote me on that.
