Michael Leone on 2 Apr 2008 20:56:55 -0700 |
Claude M. Schrader wrote: > On 20:06 Wed 02 Apr , Michael Leone wrote: >> OK ... to what end? Yes, that's a serious question. What would you like >> to do with the iPhone that you can't do with the Apple software, or with >> applications that can be developed with the new iPhone SDK? What would >> having Linux on your iPhone gain you? >> >> No, I don't have an iPhone. > > I do have an iPhone, and love it, but there are reasons why you > could justify running alternate firmware on the phone - the most likely > case would be an altered version of the iPhone build of OSX. There are > video and audio codecs which could be added to the iphone. OK .. altho that may come about from an application built using the SDK? > There are also many > things the SDK specifically disallows, such as running interpreted code, I can probably see why not - I doubt the processor in an iPhone would be fast enough for a useful user experience, using interpreted code. But not being a programmer or a phone hardware geek, I may not know. I would just look at it from a user point of view. > loading any code not installed through itunes, or VOIP over edge. Well, VOIP over edge would be taxing the edge bandwidth, right? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding why that would be a good thing. Edge networks have lesser bandwidth, and VOIP is bandwidth-intensive, no? > This means no java, no flash, no firefox plugins. Well, that does rule out a lot of sites, I'll grant you. The other end of that question is ... are those sites you'd want to see on a small phone, with limited memory and bandwidth? But I can see that. > Running an app in the backround is also disallowed - which makes things like IM clients less > than useful. I can maybe see this one ... of course, using IM on a phone is typing a conversation, rather than using the phone as a phone, and actually *speaking* to the person at the other end ... <G> > I'm not saying I would ever do this, or that I think its > right...but there are reasons to do it, other than "because we can". > Claude > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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