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Re: iPhone Development

tastyrerun — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:57:30 -0000

I agree with you that Cocoa is going to be the environment, but it won't be that difficult to keep people off the iPhone.

First, the iPhone appears to be based on the ARM processor. If Apple does not provide ARM compilation ability in XCode, developers will not be able to compile Cocoa apps for it.

Second, the iPhone has new user-interface elements that obviously make use of new software libraries. If, again, Apple does not make those libraries available, developers will not be able to develop code for the iPhone.

Third, the iPhone may be designed to only run/install applications with a certain digital signature or DRM. If Apple does not allow random third parties to sign their apps, they can prohibit them from getting apps running on the iPhone.

So, as you see, it is entirely possible for Apple to keep the phone closed and they seem to be planning to do just that.

Re: iPhone Development

Fabiano Arruda — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:08:40 -0000

In the Keynote Jobs mentioned about Cocoa for iPhone.

Cocoa is a Programing Enviroment for the X, so why the heck is it there if there is no 3rd party development?

So I think yes, it will be open to 3rd party development. Bu they are not going to reveal this so soon, there is still 5 months until the shipment...

For me the VP is contradicting Jobs, and personally Im more confident with Jobs words :P

Re: iPhone Development

tastyrerun — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:13:21 -0000

Well, that's crappy.

Guess we'll just have to hack around it. :-)

I doubt they will be able to stop it. Hell, somebody got Linux running on iPods, right?

Re: iPhone Development

Anthony — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:07:49 -0000

Apple VP Confirm no 3rd Party iPhone Apps

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/01...