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Third Party applications now on iPhone !!!

Himanshu — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:58:00 +0000

After the success of FaceBook being open to developers, it was now the turn of the hottest product ever to be open to developers….Developers would now be able to download their applications in the iPhone [but from the month of February,08]. As per the statement from Steve Jobs, “iPhone would be COMPLETELY open to APPLICATIONS” Below is a copy of the statement from Steve Jobs [taken from Apple's official site]:

We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.

It will take until February to release an SDK because we’re trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once—provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc. This is no easy task. Some claim that viruses and malware are not a problem on mobile phones—this is simply not true. There have been serious viruses on other mobile phones already, including some that silently spread from phone to phone over the cell network. As our phones become more powerful, these malicious programs will become more dangerous. And since the iPhone is the most advanced phone ever, it will be a highly visible target.

Some companies are already taking action. Nokia, for example, is not allowing any applications to be loaded onto some of their newest phones unless they have a digital signature that can be traced back to a known developer. While this makes such a phone less than “totally open,” we believe it is a step in the right direction. We are working on an advanced system which will offer developers broad access to natively program the iPhone’s amazing software platform while at the same time protecting users from malicious programs.

We think a few months of patience now will be rewarded by many years of great third party applications running on safe and reliable iPhones.

Source : Apple Hot News

Apple iPhone hacked !!!

Himanshu — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:10:00 +0000

This was a really surprising news that the iPhone was hacked by a 17 year old George Hotz.Few people said that they felt that only Microsoft was buggy but now even Apple product comes with bugs however,this is a hack and not a bug !!!

As reported by the Mercury News,

Hotz seems an unlikely candidate to have hacked the world’s most hyped product. The recent high-school graduate had little experience hacking cell phones, and by his own admission he feels more comfortable with a soldering iron than a piece of computer code.

Hotz’s effort speaks to more than simply what a teenager can accomplish with ingenuity, determination and Internet access, analysts say. They say it echoes some of the frustrations among consumers with the closed system that AT&T and Apple have created.

The video below shows how George Hotz managed to hack the iPhone:

Read the complete story here

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs : Unravel the rivalry…

Himanshu — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:48:00 +0000

This could have been one of the best interviews of all time,two rivals-Bill Gates and Steve Jobs on the same stage for an interview The start of the interview could not have been better where Bill Gates confirmed that he is not Fake Steve Jobs Below is a video of one of the interviews conducted by AllThingsD

The best part of the entire interview is the set of lines(below) from Steve Jobs, which really shows the fighting spirit of this great personality

Steve Jobs says:

And, you know, one of the things I did when I got back to Apple 10 years ago was I gave the museum to Stanford and all the papers and all the old machines and kind of cleared out the cobwebs and said, let’s stop looking backwards here. It’s all about what happens tomorrow. Because you can’t look back and say, well, gosh, you know, I wish I hadn’t have gotten fired, I wish I was there, I wish this, I wish that. It doesn’t matter. And so let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.

You can read the complete (long yet interesting) interview here where both show the sweet rivalry,in a true business sense!!!

Among the blogger community , Steve Jobs definitely scores more over Bill Gates!!!There is an article by Arpit Jacob , where he questions “Who is a better person Bill Gates or Steve Jobs?“ My vote was in Bill Gates’s favour taking the excellent work done by the “Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation” into consideration.

I hope you enjoyed the interview,just as I did Also, do cast your votes as to “Who do you think is a better person-Bill Gates or Steve Jobs?”