Today it’s come to our attention that a collection
of iPhone users out there believe that Apple might, in their next
iteration of iOS, decide to give the average smartphone user
Android-level customization options. I couldn’t disagree more. Though
it’s clear that Apple should – in an early adopter’s dream universe –
need by now to bring some major changes to their mobile operating system
iOS, it’s just not going to happen. With Apple, change comes only when
change is needed, and if you’ve seen the cash this company makes with
each new iteration of its iPhone line and think they’re in dire need of
any sort of radical change, you’re out of your mind.
What Apple should do, on the other hand, is tap
two markets that it’s been avoiding since the dawn of the iPhone. The
first of these is the customizing developer/hacker community that so
ravenously devours each new Android phone. The second is the vast group
of people rather rapidly accepting the ultra-large (but not quite
tablet-sized) smartphone screen.
With the amount of attention each post about
Jailbreaking gets here on SlashGear compared to the chatter that comes
up each time iOS is updated, an instant conclusion can be drawn: it’s
much more interesting (to those that reach tech blogs) to see the iPhone
broken into than it is to see Apple bring on updates and upgrades.
Where it gets really interesting is when Apple’s updates appear to be
the direct result of Jailbreaking – hacks take a turn, Apple takes a
turn, and so on and so forth.
So what if Apple created a Developer Edition iPhone?
Would it be so very anti-Apple to release a device that they
encouraged the very real – and rather giant – developer community to
customize?
Or would it be releasing their hardware to those that would change
the software as they saw fit that made the iPhone into a device that’s
not all that different from phones made by the Android-toting
competition?
But before they do that, they’ll have the ability
to make this handheld machine bring on innovations we’ve not yet seen
implemented on smartphones. If the rest of the smartphone universe is
the Borg, they’ve already assimilated vast amounts of the “cool” that
has pushed the iPhone to the top spot and kept it there for so many
years.
The iPhone and Apple do not need help surviving
– this is no call to action for Apple – they’ve still got one massively
successul smartphone line on their hands. Instead consider this a
call-to-action on the part of you lovers of game-changing innovation:
Apple creates products people love. If everyone on the planet made it
clear to Apple that they loved iOS better on the iPad mini than they do
on the iPhone 5, you’d see a smartphone right between the two rather
quick.
The same goes for you Jailbreaking-loving developers out there – continue to spread the love that is community evolution in software and you might – not any time soon – see an iPhone Developer Edition in your holiday stocking. Some day!
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