Thread: Screw the new N800, i want the iPhone
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shrimp_was_disabled2 is offline shrimp_was_disabled2
2007-01-10 , 21:28
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Originally Posted by Milhouse View Post
You'll be sorely disappointed, as it's been stated that
Apple will not be allowing third-party development on the iPhone.
That's mostly rumor. Apple hasn't stated anything official about the iPhone 3rd party support. At the very least, you will be able to use widgets on it. No sense in including widgets but only giving people 5 of them. And you can use C code in widgets.

Originally Posted by Milhouse View Post
And I bet "runs Mac OSX" is just marketing speak/hype, the truth being somewhat different although it's possible the limited APIs on the iPhone OS are close enough to make it indistinguishable from the desktop OS.
Technically, Apple is right. It does run OS X. It just doesn't run Aqua (which is a good decision). During the keynote, they listed tons of APIs that will be available for OS X to use. Like CoreAnimation and Cocoa. I mean, did you see the demos? It uses some pretty hefty visual UI effects, and we all know that Apple is very good at getting visual effects on slower machines. I've seen G3s run Expose and Dashboard fine. Apple probably has included a graphics memory chip for Quartz.


And why would they announce all the APIs that are included if 3rd parties can't make apps? It doesn't make sense.

However, the iPhone can't run normal desktop apps. They need to specifcally made for the iPhone. Jobs was careful to say that it can run "desktop-class applications" which is much closer to the 770/N800 than most smartphone these days.

If I were you, I wouldn't assume anything about the iPhone. It's been stated from Steve Jobs that the software is still under development. The hardware might even change.

But personally, I think the iPhone fixes what phones have been getting wrong.

It's too expensive, too proprietary, too locked down, DRMed to death probably
You idiot. The iPod/iPhone are all DRM free. If you get something from the iTunes Store, it's DRM'd. Personally, I rip, download and copy all the music that's on my iPod. And the same can be done with videos and photos.

Stop accusing the iPod/iPhone of DRM, it's just not true.
Last edited by shrimp_was_disabled2; 2007-01-10 at 21:31.