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- GeneralBison, on 12/28/2007, -1/+8This is a dupe, one page back, with 696 diggs!
- crackedplastic, on 12/28/2007, -0/+6I love how the article has the "Digg it" icon with 740 Diggs (at this moment), yet the submitter deliberately duped it anyway. Fail.
- xsecretfiles, on 12/28/2007, -6/+11No thanks, I can wait until February
- Digisphere, on 12/28/2007, -0/+5Dupe:
http://digg.com/apple/How_to_Install_3rd_Party_App ... - MuTeD, on 12/28/2007, -3/+8Isn't this old news?
- dibby1, on 12/28/2007, -0/+3pussy.
- MacParrot, on 12/28/2007, -2/+5I don't have an iPhone and don't plan on getting one unless Apple really steps it up at MacWorld, but at this point it makes no sense not to just wait to see what the SDK is going to bring.
- Philbert, on 12/28/2007, -0/+3Not if you just got one for Christmas like the article says.
- djbon2112, on 12/28/2007, -0/+3You can "digg" the article for that. Welcome to the site.
- netdroid9, on 12/28/2007, -2/+5...What? So Apple bricking iPhones and banning IMEIs is turning a 'blind eye' now?
The only iPhone 'hacks' I've seen are either difficult hardware hacks or software jailbreaks using unreliable (read: Easily patched) exploits. Face it: Apple cares more about keeping it's contracts with cell-phone companies and keeping the FCC off it's back more than it cares about the minority of iPhone users who run third party apps. - Homunculiheaded, on 12/28/2007, -1/+3Also there's huge difference from someone keeping the door to their house unlocked, and giving you the key then setting up a room for you to stay in whenever you like. I just got the nokia n800 and the funnest part of that thing how open it is. In about 1/2 hour of opening the box just about anybody can be ssh'd into the device as root and doing whatever they please. Not to mention that it's trivial to set up a pretty decent python install, and the SDK looks like it's going to be pretty nice to play around with. It has an excellent package manager for third party aps as well (apt-get and something very similar to synaptic). I thought the iphone was awesome, but now I don't think I would so willingly give up the openness.
- ramsinks.com, on 12/28/2007, -0/+2Yeah, I'm lov'n this touch I just got.. man I had no idea I could do all these things I'm doing. I would have bought one sooner.
- bulkhater, on 12/28/2007, -0/+2And now your phone will be bricked the next time you update the firmware.
- gregulate, on 12/28/2007, -3/+4very helpful article
- marybaboo, on 12/28/2007, -1/+2This way is easier..and includes a video: http://www.tinyduck.com/quack/iphone_applications
- MacHarborGuy, on 12/28/2007, -0/+1you may have forgotten, that some non-hacked iPhones also got bricked.
- KibibyteBrain, on 12/28/2007, -3/+4But the thing is, Apple hasn't really set up any walls. And if they did actually try, every OS security engineer in Cuppertino needs to be fired. The iPhone "hacking" is hardly even worth noting: its less secure than most OS installs, which is pretty incredible considering its supposed to be a locked down embedded OS. Even a novice to secure system design could make a platform much more diffcult to compromise than the iPhone using just standard open source packages that would literally take a few hours to implement. Its pretty clear Apple is turing the "blind eye" at hacking of its device, as a way to keep both the customers interested in such a thing and the content providers/cell network happy with the deal. Sometimes doing a slipshod job of being a bad-guy helps people more than doing a slip-shod job of being a good guy, and I think companies understand this.
I'll agree that Nokia has taken the light side path on this one, but there's a reason their phones are seeing less and less shelf space these days despite the fact that their technical/design advantages get better and better. Most people can't/aren't willing to afford an unsubsidized smartphone despite advantages, so I see Nokia's strategy as stuck on the launchpad. - tcrowe123, on 12/28/2007, -1/+2Well, I tried it and it worked fine. Pretty neat stuff.
- jlachowin, on 12/28/2007, -0/+0It would be great if my new iPod touch would work with my desktop computer (Vista 64-bit) but Apple doesn't support 64 bit. What a crock of crap.
- lilcleo001, on 12/28/2007, -0/+0Next time you should say IPOD TOUCH, not just IPOD! i was all excited! lol guess im getting an ipod touch!
- Robbie31389, on 12/29/2007, -0/+0Okay, today I saw this and was excited! I mean go on Youtube and look at all the videos of people playing NES on their very own iPhones. I mean the iPhone comes with a million features, but we want more don't we? Well the 3rd party software sucks. NES doesn't run very smoothly. The file browser is nearly useless, and all the other software is just modifies to GUI, which I think already out of the box looks simply amazing. So don't jailbreak, its crap!
Now when they get a full speed function PSX emulator, then jailbreak... But intill then, no reason to, the software sucks. IM with meebo.com, Apollo or the other IM software doesn't even support yahoo messenger.
I also had problems like my iPod feature becoming inoperable, and other sound issues like the receiver speaker not working when someone called me. luckily a couple of times reinstalling 1.2 fixed the phone. The iPhone is to expensive to ***** with especially for these 3rd rate programs. - Barbosa, on 12/28/2007, -9/+7Although it is nice that installing third party apps is possible on the iphone, I for one will not be getting one because of the walls put up by apple that make experimenting and enhancing the phone such a bother. When I used to use Nokia series 60 phones, the Symbian OS on it had sooo many third party apps made by such a variety of devs that it made the phone customizable like no other (at least at the time). Just like Sony and its annoying attempts to make the PSP into a walled garden, I'm sure progress and curiosity will prevail and smart people will eventually open up the iphone so that it can reach its true potential... I just wish companies like apple and sony and ms would stop crippling their devices like they do.
- ssj2119, on 12/28/2007, -3/+0tag
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