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Apple unveils iPhone

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Every Mac developer can be...

emory;7637 wrote:

Every Mac developer can be an iPhone developer. That is something that Symbian/NOK has never figured out.

Note that I'm not talking above about Symbian devices, but the Linux-based Nokia 770 and 800. They have a very hackable software stack based on the Gnome desktop environment, very easy to port to, nice high-level development tools like PyGTK. Higher resolution displays than the iPhone, but a lot less storage. Great development resources at http://www.maemo.org/. Note that these aren't phones, but internet tablets.

Maybe the iPhone will force Nokia to drop the price on their Linux devices, anyway.

Edit: See this from the comments on the main 43folders thread:

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# mathew Says:
January 9th, 2007 at 19:52

I was interested in the iPhone, until I discovered via Macintouch that it?s a closed, locked down system.

No Xcode for iPhone. No hacker applications for iPhone. No cool homebrew games, desk accessories, calculator?

That and I hate to think how much it?s going to cost per month in Cingular charges.

If I'm going to pay big money for a portable computing device, hackability is a big priority for me. Maybe not for most people, but certainly for me.

 
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