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Apple's Greg Joswiak has reportedly said the company doesn't 'hate' third-party iPhone applications, but he does stress that Cupertino doesn't 'like' or 'support' them either, Gearlog writes.

These tidbits from Joswiak emerged from a conversation with two PC Magazine writers. Joswiak said that although Apple does not set out to break third-party apps or hacks deliberately [including iPhone's that stray outside AT&T's network? – ed.], updates that break hacks aren't Apple's problem either.

And, yes, Joswiak confirmed, iPhone and iPod Touch are essentially the same platform because they both run OS X. So hacks that work on iPhone should run on iPod Touch. And vice versa.

Joswiak did say as well that Apple was always open to reviewing the policy on third-party apps, but at the moment is committed only to not 'maliciously' breaking non-Apple software.