Thread: Nokia's iPod killer....n800 successor?
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2007-08-29 , 17:12
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Originally Posted by ragnar View Post
That's really one of the silliest statements from Apple in a very long time.
I have heard that before - it was the reason that orange (uk) wouldn't have one of the linux phones, they couldn't have a system that the user could get to the network stack. In the symbian system the network stack has a amanagement section that stops people having direct access to the network. The iPhone runs OSX and no effort has ever been made (in fact the opposite) to prevent the user accessing the network directly.

You don't want your phone to be an open platform.... You need it to work when you need it to work.
Again, for 99% of people that is entirely true.

Mostly I think it's about Apple controlling the user experience. It's much easier on a closed system, things can be far more integrated.
Which is also a valid reason