While the ever-anticipated iPhone cannot run other OS X applications apart from Safari and OS X desktop email, Steve Jobs hinted in an interview that they are certainly considering the possibility of making third party applications for the iPhone. He says that it is a security issue, but he assures that Apple is currently working its way around it to allow third party developers to build applications for the iPhone.

Jobs is anxious about the problems that may arise from using third party applications, and doesn't want the iPhone to be “one of those phones that crashes a few times a day... We would like to solve this problem and if you could just be a little more patient with us, we’ll do it.” Hear that, Nokia?

Having a mobile phone that doesn't hang every once in a while is a great change, and that in itself is a good enough innovation that will make flustered cellphone users give additional points to Apple over Microsoft.

It's good that Jobs has hinted on that likelihood in a positive note: Imagine a plethora of games available for the iPhone. Should that happen, though, how those games would turn out is still a bit of a mystery, what with the iPhone having no physical keyboard... but we'll see.