At last, Apple have admitted it – they do want third party apps and they’re getting the wheels in motion right now. Steve himself has just posted on the apple.com site…

“Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in [...]

Vive la France! Orange, thanks to a concession in French law, is to sell the iPhone completely unlocked. Whilst the locked version, strapped to Orange France, will cost €399, Orange spokeswoman, Béatrice Mandrine, said that the unlocked version will cost slightly more.
Expect to see a lot more unlocked phones washing around in coming months and [...]