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miffy900 on Aug 23, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Thoughts on Flash (2010)

That wasn't the main reason though - UIKit v1.0 was pretty barebones not because they needed more time, but Jobs vetoed work on it for so long because he genuinely thought native apps were a bad idea.

tjmc on Aug 23, 2023 [–]

This is correct and has been forgotten.

"You don’t want your phone to be an open platform. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up." -Steve Jobs 2007

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