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Quotations tagged iphone in 2007

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Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers' hands in February.

Steve Jobs

# 17th October 2007, 6:04 pm / apple, developers, iphone, john-gruber, sdk, steve-jobs

All the big guns want an iPhone killer. Even I, mad for all things Apple as I am, want an iPhone killer. I want smart digital devices to be as good as mankind’s ingenuity can make them. I want us eternally to strive to improve and surprise. Bring on the iPhone killers. Bring them on.

Stephen Fry

# 19th September 2007, 7:15 pm / gadgets, iphone, stephen-fry

For any song you already own on CD, Apple is asking you to pay three times for it in order to use it as a ringtone on your iPhone: once for the CD you’ve already purchased, again to buy a needless duplicate of the track from the iTunes Store, and a third time to generate the ringtone.

John Gruber

# 14th September 2007, 8:15 am / apple, iphone, john-gruber, music, ringtones, ripoff

The other interesting thing about the 1.0.2 update is that Apple didn't try to prevent the hacks that are out there [...] one would have assumed that Apple would have done something in this release as a sort of "shot across the bow" but they didn't, which bodes well for a future, more open platform.

Russell Beattie

# 22nd August 2007, 10:08 pm / apple, iphone, russell-beattie, update

I heard that Foxconn - the place that makes the iPods and iPhones - consumes 3,000 pigs a day.

Bunnie Huang

# 14th July 2007, 12:59 pm / apple, bunnie-huang, china, iphone, ipod, pigs

Once people see that a pretty good phone can be a pretty good mobile computer, they won’t settle for less anymore; and mobile networks will be pried open.

Ed Felten

# 29th June 2007, 4:58 pm / ed-felten, iphone, mobile

Mac OS X and OS X are not the same thing, although they are most certainly siblings. The days of lazily referring to "Mac OS X" as "OS X" are now over.

John Gruber

# 12th January 2007, 10:29 am / apple, iphone, john-gruber, macos, osx

Apple doesn't give a damn. Steve Jobs doesn't build platforms, except by accident. He doesn't care about your thriving metropolis. All you independent Mac developers: you're all sharecroppers, and your rent just went up. Way up.

Mark Pilgrim

# 12th January 2007, 9:51 am / apple, iphone, mark-pilgrim, open-source, osx, sharecropping, steve-jobs