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Why is Apple Restricting Third-Party iPhone Apps?

Whatever the reason, the no third party apps seems to send people into a tizzy - why? Sales of smartphone PDA's are not exactly setting the world on fire - if anything sales are trending downward so being able to load 3rd party apps is clearly not driving the smartphone PDA market.

Then when you look at what people are adding - it's PRODUCTIVITY & UTILITY apps to replace the crappy productivity and utility apps - what's the point again? Touting that you can add a third SYNC software is really not saying much of anything.

Sure, there are apps for in-field inventory, prescription medication DB or forest logging but does Apple really compatbility with those apps to drive sales. Do any of those apps work with 99% of cellphones - no. Clearly the much, much bigger market is the "general" user - if you can read emails, look at phones, play music, video and snap a few pictures AND you can surf the web - what can't you do on the web now? What more do you need? Do you really need a 3rd party Adobe Reader when Preview works better? Do you need to a $39 Excel spreadsheet viewer when you can use a web page?

People sometimes only can see the 2 feet in front of them and parrot whatever they've always parroted but like the Mac or the ipod, be careful of sounding like Steve Ballmer who is clueless about anything not in the past.