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No iPhone SDK Means No iPhone Killer Apps
iPhoneLover/Hater writes "Gizmodo is running an article analyzing the potential failure of the iPhone as a truly revolutionary platform. The reason: no SDK to harness the true power of Mac OS X and the frameworks contained in Apple's smart cell. From the article: 'According to Apple, "no software developer kit is required for the iPhone." However, the truth is that the lack of an SDK means that there won't be a killer application for the iPhone. It also means the iPhone's potential as an amazing computing and communication platform will never be realized. And because of this and no matter how Apple tries to sell it, the iPhone won't make a revolution happen.'"
Well, I think it's time to put some flame retardant clothing on because I'm about to get all sac religious up in this post....
Although Apple does not have a bad track record, I would not argue that they have a good track record on security and here's why...
Appple's user base is incredibly small: according to a random blog 'Mac Intel OS usage is growing quickly, and currently has 0.62 percent usage market share, but overall Mac OS usage is slightly down.. Back in December 2005 total Mac OS usage market share was 4.35 percent, but August 2006 numbers show total Mac OS market share down to 4.33 percent.' The consequence of this limited user base is less people have less interest in actually finding the vulnerabilities that may or may not exist in the OS. I mean if I'm attempting to take control of another persons computer, I'm going to put my time in to the OS that has the most users not a niche user group (which Apple is).
It's analogous to saying that a fifteen year old with six months of experience, no tickets, no accidents and driving on a learners permit is a good driver; they haven't been put in nearly enough situations to make this kind of statement. And before you start telling me how OS X is based off of a Unix OS and how secure it is, look at the usage percents on unix/linux.
Now, please don't think I'm trying to say that I'd trust Microsoft over Apple, because I'll trust apple any day of the week in that battle. Anyways, mod me down, mark me as a troll/flamebait...just interjecting some thoughts before we start worshiping at the Altar of Steve Jobs...
Why isn't the iPaq or Treo "an amazing computing and communication platform?"
Simple. They aren't made by Apple so they do not have 'buzz', nor a pack of fanbois and grrls.
It looks like a very nice, powerful, and way overpriced phone. Nothing to see here revolution wise, move along. Move along.
It can do much of what flash can. WebKit supports SVG for vector graphics, the canvas tag for bitmap graphics, and Javascript for programming. You could write a video player with this, although I suspect the iPhone's CPU would be too slow to run it. You can write rich graphical applications, however.
I hardly know where to start with this comment. A video player in javascript using the canvas tag on a phone?! You do realise that the phone will have less CPU power than your PC, don't you? Significantly less. Now try to render a "video" at any decent resolution or framerate using javascript in a web brower on your PC. See how shit it looks? Stop apologising for what Apple are doing: corporate greed. Try to realise: Apple doesn't care about you. What they do is make money. That's all. Why defend Apple?
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
Steve Jobs has a funny way of fucking companies in their collective ass when they tell him "no".
Examples:
- RIAA members
- small, greedy Mac software houses that make interesting and useful apps that should honestly be part of the OS (note: the non-greedy ones got corpo-raped despite saying "yes")
- Apple itself
RDF + Corpo-rape FTW!
MacPaint was neat but Photoshop was one of the apps that made the Mac a must-have platform, and Photoshop didn't come from Apple.
Have you ever seen the difference between Adobe's Premiere and Apple's Final Cut Pro? FCP is light years ahead of anything that Premiere could do. I bought a mac just for FCP a few years ago. Its that good.
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
I guess we're learning more and more why Apple took the word 'computer' out of the company name.
They should be honest and replace the 'Computer' with 'Shiney-Plastic' and be done with it.