iPhone
(This started out as a comment to @jenks comment on @paul 's journal, but I think it's gotten too long for a comment. )
I'll be getting an iPhone from work, hopefully, that we'll try to use with the ERP system we're developing.
We're kinda bummed that we can't take the OS X code that we're using in our database client and reuse it to make a stripped-down version that runs on the iPhone. And I'm personally bummed that there's not going to be, at least for a while, an iPhone Cocoa API that would vastly increase the potential job opportunies for myself (and @zobar as well). So much for my fantasies of buying a house on Richmond with plenty of insulation, no dust, and central air.
Yes, it sucks, but then again, Cingular has been very good about respecting users' ability to use bluetooth and the users own file's however they see fit. Someone like T-Mobile or Verizon or Sprint deciding that I can't put a public-domain midi file on my phone as a ringtone and charging me $$$ to have to use their ringtone from their network, which I'll have to keep paying for over and over again when my subscription to ringtone runs out, pisses me off vastly more than the iPhone apps issue.
I've heard that one of the reasons why Apple went with Cingular (aka AT&T) only is that they were given a wide amount of latitude in what they are allowed to do. If Verizon or T-mobile had iPhones, they would probably put in enough restrictions that sucked even more than Apple's.
I'll be getting an iPhone from work, hopefully, that we'll try to use with the ERP system we're developing.
We're kinda bummed that we can't take the OS X code that we're using in our database client and reuse it to make a stripped-down version that runs on the iPhone. And I'm personally bummed that there's not going to be, at least for a while, an iPhone Cocoa API that would vastly increase the potential job opportunies for myself (and @zobar as well). So much for my fantasies of buying a house on Richmond with plenty of insulation, no dust, and central air.
Yes, it sucks, but then again, Cingular has been very good about respecting users' ability to use bluetooth and the users own file's however they see fit. Someone like T-Mobile or Verizon or Sprint deciding that I can't put a public-domain midi file on my phone as a ringtone and charging me $$$ to have to use their ringtone from their network, which I'll have to keep paying for over and over again when my subscription to ringtone runs out, pisses me off vastly more than the iPhone apps issue.
I've heard that one of the reasons why Apple went with Cingular (aka AT&T) only is that they were given a wide amount of latitude in what they are allowed to do. If Verizon or T-mobile had iPhones, they would probably put in enough restrictions that sucked even more than Apple's.
I read somewhere that the "deal-breaker" is that you can't buy songs from itunes over-the-air.
WTF? I mean I guess that would be nice, but (until the iphone) I've always thought mp3-phones were pretty weak. I mean they hold like 12 songs and the interface is crap- I don't want some extra expensive plan to let me download the latest britney song.
not to mention, I would imagine they'll add that feature in eventually.