Steve Jobs Calls iPhone Apps A New Computing Platform

Wall Street Journal:

A much-anticipated new version of the iPhone will go on sale Friday, but Apple Inc. will at the same time take the wraps off another offering that could have a more lasting impact on the mobile phone business.

The Cupertino, Calif., company will open its App Store, an online bazaar that will attempt to do for mobile applications like games, reference guides and other software what Apple's iTunes Store has done for music. Software developers and analysts say Apple's method of distributing mobile applications -- along with sophisticated capabilities of the iPhone -- represent one of the most ambitious efforts yet to refashion mobile phones into something closer to personal computers.

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Comments

[nudger]

Apple is like Berkshire Hathaway - it's reputation derives from the myth of the founder. If you look under the hood (the individual companies in the Berkshire case, and the products and services in the Apple case), the story is very different.

[CaptainHowdy]

OH MY GOD!!! STOP THE PRESSES!!!

I just heard that Steve Jobs farted!!!

This makes him the first person ever to fart in the entire history of the world!!!

Why isn't HuffPo reporting this groundbreaking and historical event.

[joebaggadonuts]

Again Steve found a weak point. I won't bet against him here.

[stevietheman]

I'm sure most of these apps will be nice, but the "app" that keeps me from buying an iPhone is their forced two-year service contract. No thanks!

[CaptainHowdy]

OH MY GOD!!! STOP THE PRESSES!!!

Steve Jobs calls a computing platform a computing platform!!!

Yet again, another Apple commercial disguised as a (non) news story on HuffPo!

"along with sophisticated capabilities of the iPhone -- represent one of the most ambitious efforts yet to refashion mobile phones into something closer to personal computers.­"

I guess Jobs has never heard of Palm or Windows CE... has he?