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Wow, even though I should know better after reading comments on slashdot for years the ignorance does still surprise me.

1. the phone is not 3G, a 3G model should be out this year. Non multitasking? Meaning what, you want your phone to compress video for you while u talk? I can take notes, and use apps while on the phone so not sure what you mean. But you did throw the words bling-bling in to look like you are hip and know what you are talking about so i must be wrong here.

2. So since other organizations can't get developers, you do not think that Apple can? People want to develop for this platform so much that they are doing whatever they can to get on it, see http://www.modmyiphone.com/ . Not to even mention the 100 million dollar venture capitol fund for iphone apps that was shown off too.

3. So its so popular that people will do anything to be able to use one. Apple might not make the extra $ each month from these users but they are making money on each sale, and all those sales are just adding to marketshare.

4. Huh? Do you mean that a developer won't be able to make money writing iphone apps? You are seriously saying that the average developer would do better just putting up a web page and marketing their apps themselves rather than have it shown on a store dedicated to the iphone? Joe Schmoe can get the same exposure on the store as Adobe if they write a good app, thats very powerful for developers.

5. So what? Seriously, But also lets look at it the other way, did you watch the video from the event? Check the 5 developers that had 2 weeks to build apps. That was damned impressive. In some cases they started from scratch, and in some cases they just modified their existing code.

6. Not quite sure what you mean here, do you mean apple buying the companies/people that do the best apps? Or what?

It seems like people just want something to bitch about rather than using your heads.
Ducky

The thing is locked down it's ridiculous. But people stillbuy them...

Well, I bought mine only after the jailbreak and unlock processes were confirmed working. So I have an unlocked phone with a development environment and lots of native apps. Now, Apple may foolishly try to break support for this stuff in a future update, but I've come up with a brilliant countermeasure of not installing said update.

Nobody cares about the iPhone as a platform either....
With no official SDK who is going to make applications for it?

Well all these people care enough about it as a platform to write what apps they can using the browser as SDK.

One of them in particular, is Popcap with the well known game bejewled.

Now you might say, that doesn't count because it's "just" a browser based app. But all of the applications listed there have been tailored to fit and work well on the iPhone. Most of the even use fragments of custom CSS that helps define the appearance for the iPhone specifically. If it's tailored to the platform, then how is using the browser as a GUI library really that much different than a true native app as far as the intent of the developer, and interaction by the user? There are even proof of concept web-based apps that detect phone rotation and respond accordingly...

Sure native apps would have a wider range of capability, but again that's a function of the scope of the API that is available at the moment more than anything. These people are all developing apps and some will be chafed by those limitations, and seek a more advanced API - as we have seen with the Terminal project.

The funny thing as far as I am concerned, is the people most clamoring for applications are in fact the ones that will likely see applications first, SDK or no SDK - as evidenced by the first third party app being Terminal. Really the wider audience can live without third party apps for a while.

Yes, you can. If all you want is to add custom ringtones, you can use a simple app like iFuntastic. If you want to replace existing other sounds (like the SMS tone you mention,) you need more in depth methods.

Sorry for the double reply but this nice hack came out if you want to plumb your iPhone and put in your own ringtones:

http://www.modmyiphone.com/wiki/index.php/IFuntast ic_easy_iPhone_ringtone_installation

Disclaimer be careful etc.

US Carrier list:

http://www.modmyiphone.com/wiki/index.php/MMS_Emai l_Addresses

posted anon. to prevent karma.