Jobs at D: iPhone five years ahead of anyone else's product
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Jobs at D: iPhone five years ahead of anyone else's product

When Mossberg asked if the iPhone will allow over-the-air video downloads, Jobs said no as this would be too slow and costly. When asked why the iPhone is a 2.5G phone when 3G is available, the Apple CEO said that 3G isn't necessary. He said the iPhone has a Wi-Fi detection feature, that Wi-Fi hot spots are springing up everywhere and that it's faster than 3G.

When asked if the iPhone’s platform was closed, Jobs said that Apple is working o a way to allow developers to build applications for it. However, he said they didn't want the iPhone to be “one of those phones that crashes a few times a day.”

"There's like 10x more WiFi out there than I ever thought there was," he says. "WiFi is faster than any 3G, and EDGE is very fast too."

Since the iPhone runs a variant of Mac OS X, Mossberg asked if the device could, in theory, run Mac OS X apps?

"We don’t think that’s a good idea," Jobs said. "We don’t have a mouse on our phone, or pull-down menus. We think there’s a different user interface for the phone."

 
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