August 4th, 2008 | by zittrain | published in iphone | 2 Comments
I don’t mean to only talk about the iPhone apps system — Facebook apps, Google mash-ups, and plenty of other emerging platforms share the fascinating if troubling characteristics of iPhone apps — but it’s an example that’s continuing to expand. On the one hand is the NYT’s reporting that the iPhone Apps Store has pressured […]
August 1st, 2008 | by zittrain | published in Generativity, iphone | 5 Comments
The iPhone has come some way since the days when Steve Jobs pledged that Apple would “define everything that is on the phone.” Yet even with a software development kit allowing for outside coding, Apple reserves the right to … define everything that is on the phone. Application makers submit their apps for Apple’s approval, […]
July 26th, 2008 | by zittrain | published in Book, Facebook, Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone, Web 2.0 platforms | 3 Comments
Macworld is reporting that some iPhone application developers are having a difficult time adjusting to having to distribute their software only through Apple. They’re apparently too afraid to go on the record (!), but: As developers update their applications — including bug fixes — it can take up to a week for a new version […]
