On Apr 7, 2008, at 1:59 AM, Chris McCormick wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 06:07:16PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner > wrote: >> Anyone tried to build Pd with the iPhone SDK? It seems like it >> should be pretty straightforward, since it has CoreAudio. I'll bet >> even Tcl/Tk will run on it. > > Doesn't Apple have to sign your binaries before they'll run on the > iPhone > hardware? > > According to a random blog post: > > "Since all iPhone applications must be properly signed for iTunes to > process them and for the iPhone to load them..." > <http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/28/rumors-iphone-application-key- > reportedly-leaked/> > > I find the idea of spending time porting FOSS software to such a > restrictive platform completely uninteresting. When they allow the > freedom for users to run the software they choose on the hardware that > they have purchased and legitimately own 100%, then it might be worth > paying attention again.
With the hacker tools, you can do pretty much whatever you want. For some reason I feel compelled to try to fuck them and show that people can do more interesting things outside of the Apple channels than within. Plus it is nice hardware that is actually a lot easier to hack than mobile phones. .hc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- "It is convenient to imagine a power beyond us because that means we don't have to examine our own lives.", from "The Idols of Environmentalism", by Curtis White _______________________________________________ PD-dev mailing list PD-dev@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
