iPhone, a developer's thoughts
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Jan. 9th, 2007 | 01:48 pm
Unless you have your head under a rock, you know that Apple has finally released their iPhone today.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/
According to the press information this phone is running OSX.
Does this mean that I will be able to write an application via Xcode using Objective C for the device?
Cell phones are a pain to program for. Even my Treo, which may soon sit in the bottom of a trashcan if Apple's phone is any good, is a pain to program for. Palm was never that friendly for developers. It certainly is better then what a lot of other providers have made available, but it is not as easy as writing a standalone GUI on a Mac, or coming up with a web interface.
But Objective C and Xcode? Widgets?
Now that would be a pretty incredible development platform to use with cell phones. Porting MySQL to something like this would be easy, which really has me wondering what all of the possibilities are for this.
An easy open, well mostly open, platform would make for a world changing event.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/
According to the press information this phone is running OSX.
Does this mean that I will be able to write an application via Xcode using Objective C for the device?
Cell phones are a pain to program for. Even my Treo, which may soon sit in the bottom of a trashcan if Apple's phone is any good, is a pain to program for. Palm was never that friendly for developers. It certainly is better then what a lot of other providers have made available, but it is not as easy as writing a standalone GUI on a Mac, or coming up with a web interface.
But Objective C and Xcode? Widgets?
Now that would be a pretty incredible development platform to use with cell phones. Porting MySQL to something like this would be easy, which really has me wondering what all of the possibilities are for this.
An easy open, well mostly open, platform would make for a world changing event.
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brad
date: Jan. 9th, 2007 10:13 pm (UTC)
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irnbru_man
date: Jan. 9th, 2007 11:06 pm (UTC)
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But the iPohne does look realy nice from a distance.
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irnbru_man
date: Jan. 12th, 2007 05:36 pm (UTC)
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No Third-party apps on iPhone Says Jobs via NYT/Slashdot
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krow
date: Jan. 12th, 2007 05:46 pm (UTC)
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What does this mean to me? That they don't know what they are doing just yet.
My hope is that someone hacks it pretty quickly upon release.
That or the one open source phone up the ante on the hardware that it will make available :)
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krow
date: Jan. 9th, 2007 11:14 pm (UTC)
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I had really hoped that Apple wouldn't partner with anyone and just sell them off the website.
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alacrity
date: Jan. 10th, 2007 03:39 am (UTC)
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Either that, or Apple has no idea how to work with partners, having never really done it on this scale before, and are going to learn a lot from this experience. :-P
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omnifarious
date: Jan. 10th, 2007 10:10 pm (UTC)
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Yes. I've been thinking of making a program to turn a cell phone into a smart card so you could use it to pay for things at grocery stores and stuff. But that requires a really open platform in which the phone easily speaks IP. I also thought that a cell phone would make a good platform to port CAKE to.
Too many ideas.
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