Independent developers hope Apple will open up iPhone

“Everybody knows that Apple Inc.’s iPhone is more than just a wireless telephone. But how much more? That depends on software developers who are building programs that add new features to the iPhone. It also depends on Apple, which has tightly limited developers’ access to the iPhone’s core operating system,” Hiawatha Bray reports for The Boston Globe. “‘They have the one phone in the world that runs a modern operating system… and they won’t open it up to developers,’ complained Ken Aspeslagh, chief engineer at Ecamm Network LLC, a Somerville company that develops software for Apple’s Macintosh computers.”

“Apple says the limitations protect iPhone users from rogue programs that could steal data or disrupt their phone service. ‘Obviously, there’s an important security aspect to this,'” said Bob Borchers, Apple’s senior director of iPhone worldwide product marketing,” Bray reports. “Programmers have scrambled to create applets for the iPhone. Over 100 are available, mostly free of charge, at websites like applists.com or getleaflets.com, with new applets released every day,.”

“But software designers agree that they’ll never exploit all the iPhone’s power until they can write code directly for the operating system, as they can with other smartphones,” Bray reports.

“As the early buzz wears off, Apple might encourage the development of more sophisticated iPhone software, to compete against its less elegant but more useful rivals. Apple’s Borchers kept the door open. ‘We always have the ability to update the iPhone over time, with new software, et cetera,’ he said. ‘What we wanted to do is make sure we walked before we ran,'” Bray reports. “And some programmers believe Apple will relent and allow more powerful iPhone programs. ‘It has the capability to do so much more,’ said Aspeslagh. ‘I think Apple will allow it in time.'”

More in the full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “NavyTim” for the heads up.]

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