No doubt you’ve read about Apple’s SDK Announcement, summary: iPhone 2.0 firmware will add a new icon called “App Store” which will be the only way a developer will get to sell their application and keep 70% of the profits. Now we’re finding out that only one application will be allowed to run at once, a huge step in the wrong direction.
I regularly walk down the street listening to music, while browsing the internet, check my email and then proceed to take a picture of a poster plastered on a wall telling me when the next party will be in my town. If I get lost then I know I’ll be able to launch Google Maps or Nokia Maps and still have all those applications running in the background.
Don’t tell me that you’ll run only one application at a time either, that isn’t how you use your PC and it definitley will not be how you use your mobile phone. I don’t care how beautiful AIM for the iPhone will be, if I can’t read a movie recommendation, launch the web browser to read the IMDB score, watch the trailer with emTube or MobiTubia, and then call someone to see if they want to join me, then I don’t want that device.
[Via: Tech Crunch]