Jobs at D: iPhone five years ahead of anyone else’s product
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
May 30, 2007 at 5:15pm
In an interview with journalist Wall Mossberg at the fifth annual “D—All Things Digital” conference in Carlsbad, California, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the software on the upcoming iPhone is at least five years ahead of anyone else’s product. He also confirmed that the device will indeed ship next month, though he wouldn’t give an exact date.
When Mossberg asked if the iPhone will allow over-the-air video downloads, Jobs said no as this would be too slow and costly. When asked why the iPhone is a 2.5G phone when 3G is available, the Apple CEO said that 3G isn’t necessary. He said the iPhone has a Wi-Fi detection feature, that Wi-Fi hot spots are springing up everywhere and that it’s faster than 3G.
When asked if the iPhone’s platform was closed, Jobs said that Apple is working o a way to allow developers to build applications for it. However, he said they didn’t want the iPhone to be “one of those phones that crashes a few times a day.”
“There’s like 10x more WiFi out there than I ever thought there was,” he says. “WiFi is faster than any 3G, and EDGE is very fast too.”
Since the iPhone runs a variant of Mac OS X, Mossberg asked if the device could, in theory, run Mac OS X apps?
“We don’t think that’s a good idea,” Jobs said. “We don’t have a mouse on our phone, or pull-down menus. We think there’s a different user interface for the phone.”
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
