is allegedly what Steve Jobs told Newsweek and continued: “Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up”. Even Jobs can’t make plain-ol’ BS look good. It’s so absurd it’s not even funny. Surely Stevey has heard of restricted well-defined public APIs and I’d think he’d be the first to consider iPhone as something more than just a ‘phone’; something like the ‘Ultimate Digital Device’, perhaps? I bet Apple will start selling ‘approved’ apps sometime in 2008 on their online store. I don’t even want to think how much it’ll cost to get the SDK (if that’s ever possible) and how easy it’ll be to get your app approved. ‘Sorry We’re Closed’.

Update: An interesting report on the iPhone lock-down by the British Macworld.