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Steve Jobs listens: iPhone opens to third parties!

Steve Chazin
Steve Chazin Former Apple executive · Princeton EE ·

Attaboy, Steve!  Still more digging to do, but Apple finally succumbed to the negative publicity around the iPhone - pledging to open it up to 3rd party developers by February. Here are Steve's words - and a hasty P.S for iPod touch owners as well.

Many of the readers of this blog - especially this post - were behind Apple's about face here - I'll give you more details in a later post.

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