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IPhone 2.0 Jailbroke
dch24 was one of many who noted that the iPhone 2.0 software has already been unlocked writes "If you were wondering how I was doing push email tests on iPhone OS 2.0 and Vodafone UK, this is the reason why. The code wizard commandos at the iPhone Dev Team have been working on this non-stop since the early days of beta testing. In fact, I had iPhone OS 2.0 running on my iPhone since last week. That was version 5A345, two below 5A347, but identical in functionality."
Still no word on an iPhone 3G crack.
I think there is a VOIP app already. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284971692&mt=8
From what I can tell, you're forbidden from using it over the mobile carriers network. You can only use it with Wifi.
Of the 500 or so apps, 130+ are free (as in $0).
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
People I work with who don't know anything about anything technology related are asking me about the iPhone. They tell me they saw some coverage in the news, and they want to know more.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
Gotta correct this... The feature set didnt just "get a lot more competitive with the app store." The potential is there for more competition and features.
The app store is full of a lot of terrible applications. Many of them thrown together crudely, like the NYC subway maps apps. The most popular one uses liscensed maps from the NY MTA (Metro Transit Authority). However the maps are just low resolution jpgs that you cant even zoom into and read clearly.
Its a rather poor application and its considered the best of the subway map applications. Thats not really saying much... or is it?
There are a few nice applications, and frankly they are the ones from AOL. The AOL Radio app is incredible, and i hope they keep adding more features and service to it. The AIM app is a welcomed addition considering Apple appears to have no fucking interest at all at bringing ichat over to the iphone. Thats very disappointing. The phone has a texting ui, but cant receive or send photo/video text messages (MMS)
Some other good apps are the facebook and myspace apps. They're actually nicer than their regular website services considering that especially the myspace app, doesnt download all of the shitty banners and crap people leave in comments. Who would have thought that Myspace is actually nice without all of the shitty "artwork" plastered all over it?
The games, what games? Apple's own texas hold'em app is average at best. It reminds me of a game from 1991. Its nice that there is multiplayer but the graphics are ridiculous. And coming from Apple... i would have expected a better ui for the game. Instead it looks like bargain bin software.
Super Monkey Ball is good... not great. It never really was a game worth owning.
Trisms, is a pretty cool game actually. Hard as hell but i think the developer did a nice job with it.
The nice things about the apps that are semi usable, is that when they use the net for data, they're very fast. They dont dl all of the nonsense that the safari browser does. Its nice to just get the dam text and a picture with a news story rather than entire website. I'm speaking about one of the new News apps on the iphone, which is lightning fast at displaying news articles... and has a photo for each story. And this is on an EDGE connection.
In general browsing with Safari on the iphone 1.0 while connected to EDGE is fucking painful. These web enabled apps though seem to do it rather nicely, streamlined and light on bandwidth, which of course means they're fast to load.
There is POTENTIAL with the new app store, and app capability... but i cant say that there is any killer app out there yet, other than AIM.
A little correction:
The publicly stated goal is 10M in 2008, not by the end of 2008.
The "by the end of 2008" comment was stated by Jobs during the unveiling of iPhone at Macworld Expo, but in subsequent interviews and conferences, it's always "in 2008" goal, making it more likely that the "by the end of 2008" comment was a misstatement by Jobs.
What the GP also neglected to mention is when iPhone EDGE was released, it was only available in the US, and was expanded slowly to a few European countries. OTOH, iPhone 3G was available in many countries on day 1 and will be available to 70-something countries this year. The newer technologies and features, more countries, the better OS and the new SDK with many 3rd party apps, the cheaper price, they all will factor in a huge increase of iPhone sales. 10M iPhones in 2008 alone? That ought to be easy. I think Apple knows its own roadmaps and plans when stating the goal, compared to an Anonymous Coward who knows nothing.
If you could show you had the rights to the source material for your dictionary (ie it was public domain, licensed, or you wrote it youself) then they would have no problem with it. I downloaded a free audio Mandarin phrasebook from Lonely Plenet that was free yesterday.
Both myself and the original AC know nothing of Apple's internal plan. However, since we are talking about publicly stated goal, at least we can get the stated goal right before we judge whether iPhone meets the expectation or not.
On a sister reply to that I wrote before, you also said:
The 10 million figure was based on the iPhone I. To meet expectations the combined sales of both models will have to well exceeed 10 million this year.
That is not right either. Apple does not break down models when talking about goals and sales. They only break down categories. iPod sales is always iPod sales, not iPod nano, iPod touch, iPod Classic sales. Portable sales is always notebook sales, not MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air sales. The stated goal is 10M iPhones (not iPhone EDGE, iPhone 3G) in (not by the end of) 2008. That's it.
We are very pleased with iPhone momentum and customer feedback continues to be outstanding. We remain confident in achieving our goal of selling 10 million iPhones in calendar 2008.
- Peter Oppenheimer, F2Q08 Earnings Call Transcript by Seeking Alpha
Clear enough?
For one thing, the developer program costs a pretty penny: $1,099 for a MacBook
As noted, Any Intel mac - including Mac Mini, look for an old one on eBay.
The sign-up form to become a registered iPhone developer appears to require that all developers be associated with a company or organization
Nope, I'm signed up as a company but I have a friend registered as an individual. In either case there are certain banking requirements (not sure if I can be specific about them so I'll leave that vague) if you want to distribute non-free applications, that essentially mean you will probably need an account with a larger bank. There are no banking requirements of course if you just want to do free applications.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I (and many developers) have signed up for the developer program and Apple has not given us a license to test our apps on our own phones. There is no word as to when this will change.
Jailbreaking the 3G iPhone looks to be the only way I can use official iPhone SDK to build apps for my phone even though I am using ATT.
The difference is, 10M in calendar 2008 means that sales in 2007 are not included in the tally while 10M by the end of 2008 means the cumulative sales from June 30, 2007 all the way to Dec. 31, 2008 count towards the final total.
If this summary is true, why does the topic at irc://irc.osx86.hu/iphone-dev say "2.0 STILL LOCKED DONT UPDATE NO JB FOR 2.0"
Seems to me that those guys are more trustworthy than Giz's advance copy of unreleased software...
In my opinion this is absolutely true. Without jailbreaking, I would still have to pay the annual fee to install my own applications on my own device.
Now now. You mean you would still have to pay a huge annual fee to install your own applications on Apples device.
Don't forget what country apple is in!
Apple design is usually about what isn't offered, and that's like a slap in the face to many geeks who measure THEIR penises by feature count.
I measure the usability of my devices by feature count. I measure my penis with a micrometer caliper like everyone else. The exact number of micrometers is left unknown as an exercise for the women.
And here I thought the claim of $1000 iphones would have discredited the OP enough to dispel any ensuing discussion.
Oh. And I work in a hospital too. And we're migrating to iPhones for our data entry and charting systems.
Yeah. That's the ticket. But seriously, just because someone makes claims on the internet doesn't mean they're credible. Glancing through this thread should make that immediately apparent. /. reminds me of a story that a friend told me. He was at a party and talking loudly with someone else to be heard above the general din. Finally, he asked (rhetorically) "Why does everyone have to be so loud?!" His friend responded, "Because this room is full of people who all think they're smarter than everyone else."