To paraphrase a couple of developers I overheard as they were leaving Monday’s keynote: “They sat down and worked on this problem of developer access for six months, and all they could come up with was ‘create a web page?’ I’m not impressed.” While I doubt Apple has spent six months on the issue of developer access—the company has been much too busy working on finishing the phone itself, I’m guessing—I do agree with the conclusion many developers seem to be voicing at this week’s conference: I am not impressed with Apple’s current solution for giving software makers access to the iPhone.


Just a couple weeks ago, Steve Jobs had this to say about the topic of third party applications on the iPhone: “I think some time later t