Comments on: iPhone and iCard http://javacard.vetilles.com/2007/07/12/iphone-and-icard/ A weblog on Java Card, security, and other things personal Thu, 18 May 2017 07:26:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.32 By: Eric Vétillard http://javacard.vetilles.com/2007/07/12/iphone-and-icard/#comment-3064 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:57:04 +0000 http://javacard.vetilles.com/2007/07/12/iphone-and-icard/#comment-3064 Application downloads into the SIM remain (mostly) under control of the operator. This model is unchanged by the iPhone. Apple may have the opportunity, through their exclusivity deals with operators, to get some control on this content, but this is quite unlikely, since they don’t control the SIM card.

In that particular case, the operator has all cards in hand: either they allow enough third-party content into the SIM card (as desired by the end user), or they miss the opportunity.

The most interesting thing remains to see whether or not the iPhone model is a success, and whether or not it is copied by enough manufacturers to make it significant. We’ll see.

]]> By: lexdabear http://javacard.vetilles.com/2007/07/12/iphone-and-icard/#comment-3063 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:15:22 +0000 http://javacard.vetilles.com/2007/07/12/iphone-and-icard/#comment-3063 True, this is really an opportunity for Bandol. Now the business model for instance could be that some online webstore wants to dump a servlet into the SIM. But how to get the servlets onto the SIM? If midlets are not allowed and no API defined to access the SIM only the operator and Apple can load servlets onto the SIM. I see some contradiction between the iPhone’s application model and the business model for Bandol.

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