Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iTS, iPhone, Apple TV
3rd party apps on the iPhone and HD in iTunes?
His Steveness hinted at a few things today at Walt Mossberg's All Things Digital conference today (check out Engadget's great live coverage of Steve's talk). During the interview with Mossberg Jobs hinted that the iTunes Store will be offering HD content at some point in the future (why else would you need a 160 gig drive on your Apple TV?). After the interview the audience was able to ask Steve some questions, and one person asked about third party apps on the iPhone. Steve said that Apple is working hard on getting third party apps on the iPhone, but they are concerned about security. He said that Apple made the call not to promise third party support until they are sure it can be done in a secure manner.
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fraserdrew said 5:27PM on 5-30-2007
He also hinted at 3G, quite strongly.
Walt didn't ask ANY follow on questions to it, so it may well have been stage managed.
"The second reason is more profound: they have spent and are spending a fortune to build these 3G networks, and so far there ain't a lot to do with them."
"We are going to deliver that. We're going to take advantage of some of these investments in bandwidth."
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Andrew Brough said 5:42PM on 5-30-2007
What this needs is iworks and ilife on it - cut down or what ever but photos, music and being able to write and do documents on the go - no need for third party stuff. Get Apple apps on the phone come on!
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Bryan T said 7:55PM on 5-30-2007
If it supports Slingbox and some kind of SNES emulators, I will buy this at release as my phone contract is up in one week. If not, I am going to have to go with the Blackjack for now.
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Greg G said 9:31PM on 5-30-2007
I really hope we can get some 3rd party apps. =)
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Thayne Miller said 10:33PM on 5-30-2007
this is an introductory product into a new market. Apple isn't going to release something full of features like iLife apps on the phone because most people aren't going to know they need that yet ;) Apple is great at introducing an idea, letting it culture in people's minds, then releasing subsequent updates as the product matures. Just wait, you'll get what you want eventually.
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Bruno said 11:01PM on 5-30-2007
Before you have HD video available for sale from Apple, you'll need a working HDCP implementation on the playback hardware. Their monitors are already HDCP ready, but none of the computers nor AppleTV are yet.
Blog Story from April:
http://twistedmelon.com/blog/apr2007.html
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