Quite sometime back tarun.telang2/blog Blog : Widgets for SAP Applications on Mobile created quite a stir in the community. The main course of the discussion was whether it would be really possible to see a "third party application/widget" on the iPhone in the near future... or at all... Though it might be stale news to majority of you, who have been following the iPhone hype, Apple, it seems, had decided not to allow or closely control 3rd Party apps on the iPhone. In an interview with the New York Times sometimes in January, 2007, Steve Jobs was quoted as saying : “These are devices that need to work, and you can’t do that if you load any software on them,” he said. “That doesn’t mean there’s not going to be software to buy that you can load on them coming from us. It doesn’t mean we have to write it all, but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment.” This news, followed by a couple of others let to lot of despair in the developer community with some actually calling for filing of Bug Reports against Apple to let them open up the iPhone for independent devel... Others, who were still not convinced, continued to theorize on why could Apple be doing so ?
These are just, but a couple of them. But things seem to be looking up recently with Apple seemingly "mulling" over the decision of opening up the iPhone to independent developers...