Install Apache and PHP on their iPhone?? Once you said that, I understood the absurdities you started with. 2.0 DOES NOT have to be "jailbreaked". All you have to do is ante up to be a registered iPhone developer. Apple wants its iPhone users to be secure that their devices won't get whacked by some idiot without the sense to write useful, non-destructive app. I've got two apps just waiting to go up to the "stone-age" AppStore in a few days.
On Jul 1, 4:13 am, Wouter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, there is a difference: there is only a marginal number of OSX > users and the main platform used is Windows. I think Apple is just > like Microsoft but much worse. They don't want to serve their > customers, they only want to make money. Why else is the OS on iPhone > so closed (even 2.0 has to be jailbreaked before it can be used) and > do they try to enforce you to use iPhone with stone-age iTunes and > expensive contracts. iPhone is my first Apple device and it is > probably my last one as soon as there is a decent alternative with an > open OS. > > I tried to get SDK working on Windows under Cygwin. Lot of work to > build. It seemed to work, I could create and compile an app without > errors, but somehow it does not run on my iPod. I had a look at Ubuntu > as alternative OS, but already at configuring it to work with my > screens it gave me trouble so I did not proceed with that. So I gave > up and am concentrating on developing PHP webapps for iPhone now. > People will need to install Apache and PHP on their iPhone, but that > is easy. The only problem is that you don't have GPS info directly, > but people are working on that. > > Wouter > > 2008/6/30 Andy Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On 30.06.08 08:54, "Pulkit Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> hello ppl, i just wanted to ask, isnt there any way to work on the > >> iPhone SDK on Windows ?? > >> Why is Apple doing this to Windows users.. > > > Well - it's the same reason, why there's no Exchange (or Visual C++ or .NET > > or Internet Explorer or...) on a Mac. So your best bet would be getting a > > (private) Mac ;-) > > > a. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
