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iPhone Can Now Run Apache, Python, Vim

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-enough-memory-for-emacs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After the first Hello World application, hacker NerveGas and the people at #iphone-shell have built Apache, Python and other Open Source apps for the iPhone using NightWatch's toolchain. Yes, your iPhone can now be a Web Server and do all sort of 1337 things. This also means that third-party applications for iPhone will happen no matter what. People, iPhone Doom could be just around the corner." It's fairly thin on information but if true, this will lead to good things. Like hopefully permission from apple.

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  1. How about Applescript or Fscript? by argent · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Something that's got good Cocoa bindings, anyway, so you can write native apps in them...

  2. no complaints by toQDuj · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They didn't complain about the hacks of the iTV, so I haardly expect them to throw a tantrum over these few geeks willing to turn their iPhone into a webserver...

    B.

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  3. AIM instead of SMS? by Oink · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think AT&T is going to force Apple to lock this down. From what I hear (maybe I'm mistaken, I don't have one yet), the only texting available on the iPhone is SMS, and not iChat. If you were free to install AIM on your phone, there goes a large portion of AT&T's income from text messages. Again, I don't know the details of the forced AT&T plans . . . are unlimited text messages forced on you? If not then I suspect I'm right. =)

    Is this something that can be patched in a forced software update?

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  4. Re:iPhone as a server by *weasel · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Put the wifi in a peering mode and suddenly it makes a lot more sense.

    Simple mobile myspace-type sites would be pretty huge for a mososo.
    Particularly if it's integrated with file/stream sharing and a decent discovery app.

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