iPhone as Infrastructure Bomb?

January 12th, 2007

Steve Jobs dropped a serious clanger in a recent interview. The iPhone is locked down because, “Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.”

iPhone as infrastructure bomb? HAHAHA

Luckily, it’s a simple matter to step outside the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field: First, Cingular’s West Coast network would face a much greater threat from a few determined people who knew what they were doing with shovels and axes.

Second, Cingular definitely doesn’t want wise guys and girls running voice over IP applications when WiFi networks are available. If you’re flapping your gums over a VoIP link during peak hours, you’re not using up your anytime, Rollover minutes. Cingular wouldn’t like that. Cingular REALLY wouldn’t like that. All those people, just piling up their Rollover minutes as they chew the fat over some free VoIP thing… Saving those minutes for when no WiFi link was available… Oh no, no, no.

Anyone want to guess how long it will take the gear heads to root that thing, have it Whistling Dixie over VoIP, and flipping Steve Jobs and Cingular the bird? Of course, they could just use Cisco’s iPhone (Cisco actually owns—or doesn’t own—the iPhone trademark and is suing Apple) for their VoIP antics, but that wouldn’t piss Steve off enough.

Via: MSNBC:

“You don’t want your phone to be an open platform,” meaning that anyone can write applications for it and potentially gum up the provider’s network, says Jobs. “You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.”

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