Thread: Nokia's iPod killer....n800 successor?
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ragnar is offline ragnar
2007-08-29 , 17:45
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Originally Posted by tabletrat View Post
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.
Allow me to be skeptical on this issue still.

There are also other phones than Symbian and Apple phones. Microsoft OS, Palm OS, both allowing 3rd party applications. Own OS:s from Asian manufacturers, Then all kinds of Linux variants. You are claiming tat the iPhone is different from all of those?

And it's not as if you _can't_ create 3rd party software for the iPhone. Hackers are doing that already, with pretty much full access to the device. If you could really "crash the network" with an iPhone mal-application, you would imagine that AT&T and Apple would be a bit more concerned that what they seem to be, since people are perfectly capable of creating those applications, with a little of effort.