A mate of mine got scammed once. Bought a game console, seller claimed it was AU and came with 2 games, turned out to be a Jap one with no games. I did some digging, contacted the other buyers this seller had dealt with, and they all claimed exactly the same thing happened to them. I contacted ebay through my friend's account, they investigated and found the seller to be fraudulent and locked his account. However, the seller was long gone by that stage. The mobile # he was passing around was no longer valid. Ebay refused to hand over any information regarding this person who's contact details turned out to be bogus, and paypal refused to hand over the banking information they had provided. Even after acknowledging he was a scammer. Legal proceedings to subpoena this information are in progress. Ebay/Paypal, if you're reading this: Stop protecting these people when you KNOW they commit the crime of fraud. It's only hurting you.
Provided you're willing to install things from outside of Apple's AppStore Applet (I think i just broke my p key), Cydia and AppTapp Installer both have Python bindings for the iphone's Objective-C UIKit Framework and others. Not to mention Java wrappers for those frameworks too. And Ruby wrappers. Really, you're only limited to Objective-C if you _let_ yourself be limited to it.
If you've ever actually tried to build anything and run it on the iphone you'd know that you don't _have_ to use objective C to write iphone apps. It just makes it easier by providing frameworks for things like GUI and networking. I have a plethora of C/C++ apps compiled and running on mine just fine. Heck, I even have gcc and g++ _on_ my iphone.
The hardware has been capable for quite some time. It's just windows CE is so crap at what it does that everyone blamed the hardware for being underpowered. Point in case, the hx4700 ipaq has been available for several years, clocks at 627mhz and has the same ram as the iphone. Even an apparently decent 2d+mpeg accelerated gpu, yet totally fails at media playback for anything encoded at a quality resolution. That is, until you reflash it with a real operating system. I'm glad apple's set the bar higher though, maybe Microsoft's CE department will wake up and realize people want _real_ features right _now_ instead of slowly bleeding out miniscule advancements that are intentionally crippled. Although having said that, CE's poor performance has until now been the driving force in making the hardware better, so it's only fair to give them credit for that at least.
Seems to me they were locked to AT&T contracts from the get-go. Sure there is a semantic difference but the effect is the same. Couldn't (officially) use the iphone without an AT&T contract. I recall reading somewhere that between the release of the iphone and ipod touch, apple stopped selling uncontracted iphones altogether and would only sell them from apple stores on a credit card with a contract. I can't seem to locate the reference for this right now though.
Yes you're right, this is sort of news for the newcomers. However I'm disputing the heading blurb's use of 'finally figured out a way'. a) they figured this out long ago, b) it's already been proved ineffective.:P I think it's just sensationalizing something that _everyone expected_ anyway.
Um, this has always been the case, since the first round of the first models started being resold without contracts Apple instigated this.
Old news, non-story, and hasn't actually stopped anyone from doing this.
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Oh yes, and in case it wasn't already obvious, I'm glad you didn't get your way. Your system only serves to hurt people.
A mate of mine got scammed once. Bought a game console, seller claimed it was AU and came with 2 games, turned out to be a Jap one with no games. I did some digging, contacted the other buyers this seller had dealt with, and they all claimed exactly the same thing happened to them. I contacted ebay through my friend's account, they investigated and found the seller to be fraudulent and locked his account. However, the seller was long gone by that stage. The mobile # he was passing around was no longer valid. Ebay refused to hand over any information regarding this person who's contact details turned out to be bogus, and paypal refused to hand over the banking information they had provided. Even after acknowledging he was a scammer. Legal proceedings to subpoena this information are in progress. Ebay/Paypal, if you're reading this: Stop protecting these people when you KNOW they commit the crime of fraud. It's only hurting you.
Silly mods. This may be flamebait, but it's far more insightful than it is incite-full ;) I vote for a re-tag.
Just FYI, it's not the browser-desktop integration causing the problem with IE, it's how the win32 dynamic linking mechanism works
Provided you're willing to install things from outside of Apple's AppStore Applet (I think i just broke my p key), Cydia and AppTapp Installer both have Python bindings for the iphone's Objective-C UIKit Framework and others. Not to mention Java wrappers for those frameworks too. And Ruby wrappers. Really, you're only limited to Objective-C if you _let_ yourself be limited to it.
If you've ever actually tried to build anything and run it on the iphone you'd know that you don't _have_ to use objective C to write iphone apps. It just makes it easier by providing frameworks for things like GUI and networking. I have a plethora of C/C++ apps compiled and running on mine just fine. Heck, I even have gcc and g++ _on_ my iphone.
The hardware has been capable for quite some time. It's just windows CE is so crap at what it does that everyone blamed the hardware for being underpowered. Point in case, the hx4700 ipaq has been available for several years, clocks at 627mhz and has the same ram as the iphone. Even an apparently decent 2d+mpeg accelerated gpu, yet totally fails at media playback for anything encoded at a quality resolution. That is, until you reflash it with a real operating system. I'm glad apple's set the bar higher though, maybe Microsoft's CE department will wake up and realize people want _real_ features right _now_ instead of slowly bleeding out miniscule advancements that are intentionally crippled. Although having said that, CE's poor performance has until now been the driving force in making the hardware better, so it's only fair to give them credit for that at least.
Seems to me they were locked to AT&T contracts from the get-go. Sure there is a semantic difference but the effect is the same. Couldn't (officially) use the iphone without an AT&T contract. I recall reading somewhere that between the release of the iphone and ipod touch, apple stopped selling uncontracted iphones altogether and would only sell them from apple stores on a credit card with a contract. I can't seem to locate the reference for this right now though.
Then why did this happen?
Yes you're right, this is sort of news for the newcomers. However I'm disputing the heading blurb's use of 'finally figured out a way'. a) they figured this out long ago, b) it's already been proved ineffective. :P I think it's just sensationalizing something that _everyone expected_ anyway.
Um, this has always been the case, since the first round of the first models started being resold without contracts Apple instigated this. Old news, non-story, and hasn't actually stopped anyone from doing this.