Indeed, But In A Similar Fashion

A NY Times article by John Markoff on the iPhone:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/technology/12apple.html

The article itself is interesting because it contains a quote from Jobs about third-party applications on the iPhone:

“These are devices that need to work, and you can’t do that if you load any software on them. That doesn’t mean there’s not going to be software to buy that you can load on them coming from us. It doesn’t mean we have to write it all, but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment.”

So it might be the case that third-party software has to go through Apple QA to make sure that the experience is seamless. That’s ok with me, even if the Cingular issue is still a deal-breaker.

What sticks out the most about this article, though, is the writing. There are three sentences that begin with ‘Indeed,’ three that begin with ‘But’ and three uses of the phrase ‘in a similar fashion.’ The writing feels disjointed in other places, too.

Maybe this is the status quo for the NY Times and I just haven’t been paying that much attention.