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First iPhone 3rd Party GUI App Compiles
CmputrAce writes "Well, it's here now. The #iphone-dev team has compiled the first third-party application for the iPhone. Of course, it is the standard "Hello, world." application, but it's native to the iPhone and uses the iPhone's GUI. This opens up the iPhone for development by anyone who can forge through the process of cracking the iPhone, installing the iPhone "Toolchain", writing an application, compiling, translating, and finally installing the application to the iPhone. With the pace of development at present, expect to see commercial "jailbreak" (mod-enabling) applications soon as well. You can already get high-quality applications (Mac) to theme the iPhone and add your own ring tones (Win) for the phone."
Shouldn't the article link be replaced so that the wiki won't get slashdotted?
Carrier support is not needed for visual voicemail. Most real phones and networks can be configured regarding what number to dial and forward to for voice mail. Apple could have simply done like they do for the .mac services and charged a small fee, like $5/month, to allow cross-network visual voicemail. Not all that horribly difficult, really.