Apple to allow third-party software on iphone

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AP via Yahoo! News: Apple OKs 3rd-party iPhone applications [news.yahoo.com]

Apple Inc. will allow third-party applications on the iPhone, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in a posting on its Web site Wednesday.

In a decision that marks a clear turnaround from Apple's previous desire to control the applications consumers have on their iPhones, Jobs said the company intends to release a software development kit in February that will let people outside the company to create iPhone and iPod touch applications.

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I wanted to read the story for myself at the Apple site, but for reasons I haven't been able to fathom, I couldn't gain access to the Apple homepage with my Wintel/IE box. Stranger still, the Linux/Opera box beside it had no trouble getting into Apple. Absolutely mystifying... ;)
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I couldn't gain access to the Apple homepage with my Wintel/IE box

it would be interesting to try ua spoofing to see (for example) if firefox works with the USER_AGENT header setr to IE...