Som altid efter et Apple Event stiller Steve sig til rådighed for pressen til at besvare spørgsmål omkring annoceringerne, her er et resume på engelsk af de spørgsmål som blev stillet til Steve Jobs og Phil i dag, efter det successfulde iPhone Roadmap Event
Q: Why did you change your mind about the iPhone open SDK? How long will apps be vetted before being published.
Steve: We change our minds a lot. The web apps have worked well, but developers wanted to do more. And we heard that. Creating an SDK is a lot of work, you want to make it something you can live with for 20 years, and yet update it without breaking apps. This is an elegant and clean system.
Phil: Second question. Electronic submission will be very fast, and this is a whole new process. (Didn’t answer the Q.)
Q: WiMax iPhone?
Steve: We’re not here to talk about hardware today, only software.
Q: What is the nominal fee for the iPod touch upgrade to firmware 2.0?
Steve: We’ll set it later.
Q: Ryan from Engadget asked about SIM unlocking. Will that be not allowed?
Steve: *pause*…*dagger eyes*…Yeees.
Q: Oh no, someone said monopoly. Is the App store a monopoly?
Steve: They won’t be able to do it without the store. Small and big devs won’t have the same reach so why would they want to go elsewhere? (Paraphrased.)
Q: What will happen if someone does a VOIP app?
Steve: We will only stop VOIP over cell networks, but not WiFi.
Q: What safeguards are in place to make sure the apps will be secure?
Steve: It is a dangerous world. One one side, you have a closed device like the iPod, you don’t have to worry about 3rd party apps mucking it up. And on the other hand, you have the PC where people spend a lot of time getting it to work. We want the best of both. The developers are going to register with us if they want to distribute them. If they write a bad app, we can both track them down and we can turn off the app’s distribution. So we’re putting controls in place.
Steve: The iPhone has been shipping for less than a year, remember.
Q: Business apps are coming, should RIM be worried?
Steve: Go ask them.
Q: What does the 100m iFund do for the community?
Steve: This is going to help young developers with funding. It helps the whole iPhone ecosystem.
