There has been quite a bit of consternation over whether or not Apple will allow third parties a free reign on releasing software for the iPhone, but a recent interview between the Seattle Times’s Briar Dudley and AT&T’s Glen Lurie shed a needle-thick shaft of light on the situation.
When speaking about why the iPhone is worthy of such a vertical steep price-tag, Lurie let slip a potentially revealing little factoid.
You have the widgets, some of the Google applications that are coming — there are just so many things here that the price will not be an issue.
Some of the Google applicationS eh; that sounds awfully plural to us considering the only announced iPhone Google application so far is Gmaps. Chances are Google will be looking to get the likes of Gmail or the Google news reader up and running on Apple’s new toy. Yes, we know this is mumble-news at best, but it is hard to resist the lure of iPhone news so close to launch.
(The Seattle Times via Gizmodo)
Updated: Apple has now confirmed the US iPhone launch date as 29th June — to read more click here. To read all our iPhone coverage, click here. It also seems as though there will be Google Maps directions — and possibly GPS — in the iPhone.
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