yes it is useless to waste time in order to develop software for this product with these restrictions
Il giorno 27/giu/09, alle ore 18:10, Trixter aka Bret McDanel ha scritto: > On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 17:47 +0200, Ron Arts wrote: >> SIP clients for the iPhone suck. Because of the Apple restriction >> that apps cannot run in the background. Also as soon as you receive >> a GSM call, your VoIP call is terminated, and the iPhone phone app >> pops up. > > that is a problem with the iphone and not sip clients per se, as a > result it may not be the best tool to be looking for, if you can > drop a > VoIP call merely by calling the gsm number. > > According to a Sr. VP of iPhone software this is to combat stupid > people > "Most implementations often incorrectly lead users to believe that > they've quit programs when they remain open, reducing the battery life > and hurting processor performance with each open application." > > I personally would not want a facist phone that tells me I am too > stupid > to manage apps running on it, and they need to do that for me, but > that > is just me. I am acutely aware of the apps running on both my linux > based and windows mobile based smartphones, and think that its > silly for > someone to arbitrarily decide that I should have a crippled OS simply > because some users are not so aware. > > It also looks like apple will have a stricter approval policy on apps > that run in the background. The whole concept that I bought the > phone, > I own the hardware, yet I have to get permission to run > applications and > can only run the ones they let me, seems silly. If this limitation > were > placed on desktops then its unlikely that people would use that. Some > people like to develop applications that do a specific task and do not > want to have to jump through hoops to install their software on their > hardware, especially if it conflicts with some business model of the > seller of said hardware. this might be fine for game consoles, but > people rarely use a game console for business, and when you add in the > business aspect it makes it a different argument. > > So for this to be possible, and what I just read on the push stuff > it is > not as possible to stop the voip app dies when you get a phone > call, you > would have to get apple's permission to do it, which would require > them > to have no vested interest in not using the GSM network, which I > believe > since they are tied to the carriers they allow to carry the phone > it is > not. The push stuff basically lets an app know that it has to perform > some task, if it dies because something else popped up it appears all > you can do is bring it back up, but the call would still be trashed. > > Its a whole big pile of facism, they tell you how you are allowed > to use > your phone, they approve which apps you can use with your phone, and > this will not work well for all users, as a result it would not be > something I would stake my business on. > > > -- > Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel > pgp key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8AE5C721 > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz