Stolen shamelessly from CISNKY; gonna look into this series of iPhone application development articles shortly. Looks really good.
Makes me almost want to risk jailbreaking my iPhone; original Gameboy theme for the iPhone.
About bloody time; Apple remove the NDA from their developer programme.
“We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.
We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others.
However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software. Developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering released software within a week or so. Please note that unreleased software and features will remain under NDA until they are released.
Thanks to everyone who provided us constructive feedback on this matter.”
The first step in competing with the much more developer-friendly Google Android platform?
I vaguely remember reading something about this before (and how the 2.1 firmware was supposed to make things quicker), but I’ve just connected my iPhone to my Mac and it’s taken around 20 minutes to sync. I needed to make a call during this time but obviously couldn’t without breaking the sync process.
Considering the iPhone’s connected via USB 2.0, surely it shouldn’t take this amount of time just to copy data to/from the device?
Yes, it’s not all over yet. Because of all the previous problems I had trying to get my iPhone connected to O2, I emailed the chairman of Carphone Warehouse to complain, after the assistant in-store advised me to. My initial email bounced back (hmmm), and then the second one got a response that I should be writing to their complaints department.
I wrote to their complains department and didn’t hear anything back, so I sent an email asking if it was being considered. They said they had no record of my letter, and asked if I had the recorded delivery details of it! So, they expected me to send it recorded delivery? I smell a rat; it sounds like they can’t be bothered dealing with it.
Anyway, I’ve sent it now recorded delivery and I’ll see where I get. 12 days I was waiting to be connected, had numerous problems with both CPW and O2, and now this. It’s all extremely lame.
Not sure how much of this still applies given the 2.1 firmware update added a few things to Safari, but likely to be largely true still I’d bet. Yahoo article on iPhone caching here.
It seems Apple included a Safari update in their recent 2.1 firmware upgrade and have now opened up a few new things for web developers to play with, as Matthew Congrove blogs about on myDailyPhoto. His iPhone Safari Flick Navigation demo is really impressive and opens up new ways of serving web content to iPhone/iPod Touch users.
Browse the demo directly from your iPhone by clicking here. Article originally spotted on Ajaxian.
On a bit of a nostalgia tip I came across this site showcasing a huge range of old Nintendo Game & Watch games. I’d forgotten how many of these I’d played while growing up.
Some of these would make perfect Flash/iPhone games now. Hmmmm…
iPhone apps continue to evolve. I recently stumbled upon Beatmaker, a music creation tool on sale through the Apple store. It’s a bit more expensive than the other apps (around £12 I think) and doesn’t have midi support yet, but the demos I’ve seen so far have been extremely impressive.
Considering there’s a solid business model in place for developers with the app store, I can’t wait to see what others develop in the coming weeks and months. The iPhone really is a portable computer; not just a smartphone, and I think that’ll become increasingly evident as time goes on.
Oooooo! Gotta download this and try it out when I get home tonight; WordPress for iPhone. I’ve high hopes for all the different applications that’ll be released for the iPhone/iPod Touch over the next few months.