[Geowanking] Bad news for those who wanted to see location-based apps on the iPhone...

[Beau Gunderson]

"Apple CEO Steve Jobs stated emphatically that despite its OS X roots,
the Apple iPhone would be closed to third-party apps, remarking, "You
don't want your phone to be an open platform...Cingular doesn't want
to see their West Coast network go down because some application
messed up.""

Ouch.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Report_Apple_IPhone_Not_a_Smartphone/1169746276