iPerbole: App Store history in quotes

July 13th, 2009, 17:02 Posted By: wraggster

So developer relations with the iPhone and App Store has had its ups and downs (or 'Apps and Downs', ho ho). As we prove in our comprehensive list of facts and figures about the device and its distribution method, most of it has been up. That positive up swing has brought with it wave after wave of praise - and criticism.
Here, we run through some of the key quotes that helped define and at times undermine, Apple's encroachment into video games…
"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. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. It will take until February to release an SDK because we’re trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once — provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc. As our phones become more powerful, these malicious programs will become more dangerous, and since the iPhone is the most advanced phone ever, it will be a highly visible target. We think a few months of patience now will be rewarded by many years of great third party applications running on safe and reliable iPhones."
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs in an official blog post. The news came after months of back and forth between Apple and the homebrew community that kept releasing 'jailbreak' updates that would unlock the iPhone to unofficial third party applications. (October 17th, 2007)

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