Programmers Welcome for the iPhone … Next Year - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog:
October 17, 2007, 1:57 pm

By Saul Hansell

Tags: Apple, iphone, steve jobs

UPDATED: See end of post

A day after accepting the market price on unprotected downloads, Steve Jobs has indicated he will also lift some of the walls around the iPhone as well.

In a post to Apple’s Hot News page, Mr. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, writes, “Let me just say it: We want native third-party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February.”