Letters to the Editor
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Third-parties
The iPhone will start its quick road to oblivion as soon as it opens up its API to third-party developers. As fast as you can say, "Damn, my phone's fucked up," the poorly coded 'Feed Your Dog Reminder' widget that you installed on your iPhone last week will bring your billion-dollar device down to its knees.
Of course, the beauty is that you won't know it's your ill-fated widget that brought you phone down. You'll go to an Apple discussion forum and blast the iPhone for crashing.
Repeat.
Watch it go down in flames.
I think Jobs had something when he said that he is hesitant to allow third-party applications onto the iPhone. And if he does allow it, he should charge each company $10,000 to put it on his iPhone to prevent fly-by-night chop shops (and Russian mafia cartels) from creating crap apps.