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First Third-party Native iPhone Application Released
An anonymous reader writes "A third-party native application for the iPhone is now available. Gizmodo discusses the real full-fledged iPhone application with a graphic user interface and its own icon in the iPhone home screen. It is not a Web 2.0 app but the real thing. What is it? Ironically enough, MobileTerminal, 'a terminal emulator application for the iPhone. MobileTerminal.app is NOT an SSH client, nor Telnet for that matter. It can however be used to execute a console ssh-client application.' The iPhone dev revolution has just started."
"Folks, Apple is a company that makes neat products. It's not a club or a religion"
You've never seen any coverage of MacWorld, have you? It's like Steve Jobs' own personal cult! They way they fawn over every single product in his keynote addresses is beyond pathetic... it's downright scary.
It doesn't have to take off. In fact, it will probably be a commercial failure. But we should all be glad it exists as symbol of the ultimate good to contrast against Apple's ultimate evil. The mobile computing revolution is just beginning to take off, and Apple stands to cut if off at the knees if they can manage to produce their devices cheaply enough to convince the masses that an almost-smartphone is a better replacement to the feature phone than a real smartphone.
Sure, it might give you the "real internet", but so does AOL. It's all about lock-in and captive eyeballs and DRM. It's a content delivery channel, not a general purpose computer.
You have taken Apple's crap crippleware platform, which they have specifically said they don't want help with and you've started making something useful out of it. If idiots like apple don't want their hardware fulfilling what it can, stop trying to add value to their product, which at best they might not sue you for, and start putting your work into something taht's A> Worth it, and B> Wants your help
right, because other smart phones haven't had 3rd party apps for years, you fucking retarded mac fanboys.
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Well, we'll see how well this works out. It still seems odd to go with an iPhone when apple could have created a newer and much improved Newton.
I don't think there are many people, newton fans included, who really think that is odd at all.
I mean if the marginal iPod is able to sell the kind of units it does, imagine what a well designed product could sell.
If I might present a different observation, perhaps something that sells as many units as the iPhone is in fact well-designed?
I genuinely wonder how much longer a product that is sold by virtue of being "different" can possibly remain the dominant product before people realize that it isn't a rebellious thing to be amongst the masses.
Pretty long considering none of the several people I know who have bought an iPhone did so to be fashinable or unique. I do not seek to display it, I seek to use it. I don't care if I am one of many or one of few.
Different is the virtue that sells the iPod, but you are confusing "different from all my past crappy cell-phones/smartphones" to "I am different than anyone just because of a purchase".
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So other than putting an icon on the screen, you could hook it to a Mac and run commands? Can't I do that with my keyboard?
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You know they're giving each other high fives for being on this website, right? Except for the guy in the first picture, he's probably in the bathroom with his iPhone on vibrate and taped to his balls.