tuaw.com — The busy beavers of the #iphone IRC channel, whose collective efforts have built the first unauthorized iPhone GUI application (in true hacker fashion, it displays "Hello World" and does nothing else), have released the source for the demo app, buildable with the community-built toolchain and UIKit.
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colincornabyJul 30, 2007
Of course. It's a GUI app. GUI apps have more complicated source.
robdiggityJul 30, 2007
Interesting how he ran the app and took the photo at exactly 12:00pm...
chromeriumJul 30, 2007
It seems incredibly short sighted to me that Apple would prefer that a 3rd party would come up with a hacked together SDK rather than just release theirs.There is also no reason why Apple couldn't design the OS in such a way that applications unsigned by apple are not able to access the phone features.People are going to hack the thing and release applications eventually that are developed against his hobby built API, whether Apple wants them to or not. I would think Apple's SDK would provide safer applications.
me1000Jul 30, 2007
USE THE F**KING REPLY BUTTON!
focherJul 30, 2007
Maybe they don't actually want to be flooded with people on either the IRC channel or on the Wiki.
cyber_akumaJul 30, 2007
Kinda funny how they are (well, to me) a software and device company, since their desktops are basically PCs with MacOSX.