iOS lockdown was based on two lies, both told by Steve Jobs:
1) “You don’t want your phone to be an open platform. You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.”
2) “We don’t intend to make any money off the App Store. We’re basically giving all the money to the developers and the 30 percent that pays for running the store, that’ll be great.”
Any other justification is revisionist history.
Jeff Johnson /
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2024-01-28 20:00:48
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