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First Third-party Native iPhone Application Released

Posted by Zonk on from the first-or-third dept.

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."

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  1. PSPhone DS by theolein · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I recently saw an ad for an embedded game developer.... by apple. Requiring many years of experience etc yadda yadda yadda.

    Here's the apple game dev ad.

    This speaks legions to me, and it says Apple is not only going to turn the iPhone into a a cool smartphone, but they will also start selling games with it. IT has enough horsepower and screen real estate to take on the PSP..... and the DS, with the multi touch interface.

    If it works and sells, Sony is going to shit big square bricks, Steve Ballmer is single handedly going to cause a world chair shortage, and Nintendo is going to be most challenged. Anything you can do with the DS, you can do with the iPhone.

    Most, most interesting.

    1. Re:PSPhone DS by MorpheousMarty · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I am not a Nintendo fanboy, however you don't seem to understand the full lack of challenge ANYONE has brought to the Nintendo on the portable front. I heard at the peak of the last console wars they still sold a Gameboy for every PS2, Gamecube and Xbox sold, and that Pokemon accounted for 50% of all video games sales. But even if that weren't true, it's pretty clear that the DS currently is the most successful console, by a wide margin. I doubt anything but the most concentrated effort could take on Nintendo.

      However Mac does sell about 10 million iPods a quarter lately, far outstripping DS sales. I started out sure that you were crazy to think Apple could do something dangerous to Nintendo with iPhone/Pod... but given the numbers... anything could happen if they release a touch screen iPod.

  2. The iPhone has an SDK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's called HTML+CSS+JS.

    I don't care for the iPhone, myself -- another closed proprietary system? I'll wait for OpenMoko.

    But you kind of have to give them credit for one thing. If they had released an iPhone-only SDK, you'd see iPhone-only apps. By not releasing any SDK, and by releasing a real web browser for it, people are writing web apps designed for mobile devices. Which means they're not really tied to the iPhone.

    I think that's kind of cool, actually.

  3. Re:IPhone Revolution? by mechanyx · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I want a phone running OpenMoko so that I can do the following things:

    1) automatically check unknown numbers against whocalled.us type telemarketer lists
    2) log ALL calls - especially useful to see how many times ppl from 1) have called you if you set it up to show while ringing
    3) *MY* ringtones - they don't sell Wagner, Scriabin, Schnittke or death metal on those services - not that I'd want to pay for music I already own.
    4) ringback tones
    5) advanced blacklisting functionality
    6) the ability to have my phone turned on to use as a clock or whatever without it being on the network so no one can call me (think movie theater or orchestral concert hall here)
    7) things I haven't thought of yet

  4. Re:Revolution? by tunesmith · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For me, it's a revolution just because it's the first product that has reached a critical mass point to make me less likely to use my laptop. I make my living from my laptop, and I'm kind of anchored to it, which affects my daily lifestyle. The iPhone reduces my need to open my laptop by about 60%. This changes my lifestyle dramatically. It's actually a bit traumatic (in a positive sense) and I haven't completely adjusted to it. I'm actually considering traveling more, taking more working vacations, taking up running... I don't know, it's like it has made *me* more portable without me having to discipline myself to be as such. The impact is difficult to measure.

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