And your point is ...?RThurmont wrote:They're not, but many hugely popular open source projects are GPLed.Since when are "open source" and "GPL" the same thing?
Funny, because that's basically the official stance Apple has taken with respect to jail-broken iPhones. It is your hardware, and you can do with it as you please. Just don't expect Apple to give you support for whatever hacks you install. If you want to develop and install applications the sanctioned, supported way, you have to pay extra. Don't like it? Then why'd you buy the damn thing?What gives Steve Jobs the right to demand additional money for me to be able to modify or install my own software on a phone that I already legitimately paid for and own? Screw him, I'll keep on jailbreaking it. It is my own fucking phone, after all.
Oh yeah, and even if this wasn't the case, the fact that you bought the phone being fully aware of its inherent limitations shows that you accepted them and the fact that you'd have to go through extra lengths to surpass those limitations, whether those lengths are paying money or hacking the phone. Apple can sell anything they want with any limitations they want. Contrary to what the Oh So Holy GPL says, all software does not want or have to be free as in speech or as in beer. People put their blood, sweat and tears into this stuff. They have the right to be compensated for it.
Wow, and this has what to do with my point? Oh right, nothing.Well, there are reasons why FreeBSD lags behind Linux in marketshare, afterall, and IMO the demented "give it all away" attitude of the BSD community is a major factor.
There could be a thousand different reasons, one of which might have to do with stabilizing the API. You don't release an API for mass consumption unless you're damn sure you won't be changing it.Admiral Valdemar wrote:As I understand it, Apple has denied licences to some people as they want to restrict how many go about making applications for the time being. Correct me if wrong, it does seen a tad silly when so many have such talent and ideas.
The 2.0 firmware is in beta. Since when is it anything resembling surprising that a company would have a private beta period for an unreleased product? Hell, we seed select developers with pre-release builds of Mac OS X updates, and I don't see anyone accusing us of being fascists because of that.Oh, I'm more than aware that the SDK is just the suite one uses to develop the software they want (I did do programming for a few years). I'm just saying that the way Apple has restricted how it's distributed seems an odd move for now. I'd rather have everyone willing to make stuff for the device out there doing it.
Wow, a Brit who liked the UK ads? I was under the impression that they went over like a lead balloon over there.Not I. I liked the UK Mac ads because I happen to dislike Windows too. I just don't fellate Jobs because his stuff works (for a price).
That's the whole point. Carriers are gouging people for MMS and SMS. Both have what are essentially free replacements (provided you have an unlimited data plan, which all iPhones users basically do) available through TCP/IP. These things won't stick around very much longer. People do pay attention to their cell phone bills.The fuck?! MMS in the States must suck donkey cock then. I want to send an image or video? I take the picture or record something and click send via MMS. It sends in the background. And I could do that flawlessly and cheaply with my ancient K700i. There's no difference between that system and what I use in my N95, only now I can e-mail if I want too (which may be cheaper and more convenient given the rise of web capable devices now).
I'm no knocking the whole using the Internet directly method, I just find it a bit early to go only that route when MMS is, at least here and the rest of Europe, a piece of piss and far more common.
And providing an official, sanctioned way to make money off of iPhone apps is enough of a motivation, especially when you factor in all the stuff Apple does for you -- hosts your app, distributes it, puts it on the Internet equivalent of a retail shelf and handles all financing. Whereas with a 3rd-party app meant to run on a jailbroken phone, you have to get users to jailbreak their phones first.
