“Kaspersky already offers security software for Symbian and Windows Mobile phones, and will soon offer applications for both BlackBerry and Android,” Collins reports. “And although he admits the risk of viruses infecting the iPhone is ‘almost zero,’ he claims that securing the data on the handset is critical, especially as iPhones are increasingly being used for business purposes.”
Collins reports, “He said Apple’s repeating the mistakes it made in the computer market, where it lost out to Microsoft, which encouraged developers to write for the Windows platform. ‘Apple has a three-year timeframe to become the new Microsoft,’ he said. ‘If I were Steve Jobs, I’d spend those three years building a software community around Apple.’”
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MacDailyNews Take: The day Mr. Jobs needs your advice, Gene, is the day we head over to Best Buy to buy a Dell. In case you’re confused, that’d be the day right after never. If you were Steve Jobs, you’d be changing the world, not stooping to dropping your crap into a PC-centric media outlet in a weak, failed attempt to make Apple look bad because they won’t let you screw up people’s iPhones for a recurring fee. Stick with Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Android; you’re made for each other. And, lastly, it’s acutely obvious that Jobs is building quite the unmatched software community around Apple — just not for leeches.
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