The report notes that there are skeptics of the consumer device, as the high price will limit the phones’ appeal to true believers, the bandwidth or connectivity is slower than many other phones, and lack of a true-keyboard may limit text-intensive business applications. “It’s very media-centric,” the Times quotes a director at a handset competitor. Declining to be identified so as to not elicit comparisons with the iPhone, the director continued: "It will hit one sweet spot, but not necessarily all of the sweet spots — we hope." Last week at the D5 conference, Jobs touted the software behind the device and said that Apple was looking for ways to open up the iPhone platform to third-party applications, which could spawn an entire new generation of mobile computing. Jobs believed that Apple's Mac OS X, tuned for mobile applications, will allow it stay ahead of its competitors, giving it a five-year lead in the industry and helping it succeed where the Japanese consumer electronics industry failed. The Times reports that Apple intends to announce at WWDC next week that it will make it possible for developers of small programs written for the Macs to easily convert them to run on the iPhone.