"Change of direction" isn't accurate. Apple never had a position one way or the other regarding 3rd party native apps (Jobs's famous "cat and mouse" statement was made with reference to a question about 3rd party unlocking apps -- not all 3rd party apps). Apple never once came out and said that they did not want 3rd party native apps. Of course, they also never made a statement (until today) that they would support them, either.

Just because the 1.1.1 iPhone update broke hacked 3rd party native apps does not mean that Apple was hostile to the idea of 3rd party, native apps. I think they have just been waiting all along for Leopard to be released.

Sent from my iPhone. Ever heard of it?

Hmmmm. "It's hard to call the Xbox 360 anything but a success" --- losing billions of dollars, making a shoddy product where as many as 1 in 3 fail out of the box, getting your clock cleaned by the Wii in the marketplace -- I think it's hard to call the Xbox 360 anything but a failure.