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[andrewducker]

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[andrewducker]

Because the iPhone does seem to do pretty much everything I want, but if you think I'm locking myself into a phone where I can't install whatever software I like, you're kidding yourself.

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

Unlike Google?

[andrewducker]

They're not setting the law on him for putting whatever software he likes on his phone - they're setting the law on him for breaking their copyright.

You can install any app you like on Android - but that doesn't mean you won't get in trouble if you break the law.

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

So you can't install whatever software you like, because Google still has control. On a truly open platform, piracy would be possible. Indeed, a jailbroken iPhone is more open than an Android OS handset (ignoring for the sake of the argument that Android OS handsets are, at the moment, a bit wank).

(Also, it really annoys when people put images from comics in their feed instead of just linking to them, especially with xkcd because the tooltip (which essentially also criticized the Droid in this case) is lost.)

[andrewducker]

You _can_ install any software you like. Google has no control over that. What made you think they did?

Android, by default, is the same as a jailbroken iPhone - you can just install apps from your PC.

And xkcd here has the tooltip for me, both in IE and Firefox. I always copy it when I repost an xkcd, as it's an integral part of the experience.

[robhu.livejournal.com]

So when you say you can't install whatever app you want on an iPhone, do you in fact mean that to install whatever app you want you have to first run one executable to jailbreak it?

[andrewducker]

Which is fine, providing "voiding your phone's warranty to get the functionality you want" is acceptable to you.

To me, not so much.

[errolwi.livejournal.com]

Note that the tooltip doesn't appear on safari on the iPhone. There are of course apps that overcome this.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I still adore the iPhone but I'm getting increasingly frustrated by the antics of the App Store goons who have clearly lost the plot. Latest victims are the well-respected Mac development house Rogue Amoeba, who have basically said 'a plague on it, we're not developing for iPhone any more until you get your house in order'.

[andrewducker]

I had heard grumblings from iPhone developers, fed up with battling the App Store policies, but I didn't know they were hitting the bigger developers. It's a shame - you'd think they'd work hard at keeping developers onside.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

The Rogue Amoeba story is interesting. Apple computers include a little image of the computer, so that developers writing network software can utilise that image to show a link to a particular computer (I remember the first time I plugged in an iPod Mini and my desktop didn't just know it was an iPod Mini, it knew that it was green. I thought that was very very cool). Rogue Amoeba used those images, and promptly got a *bugfix* rejected from the store, for months and months. Rogue Amoeba's side of the story is here; the other interpretation is here.

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

I was the same when I connected my red nano for the first time and it showed up correctly - Isn't it amusing how excited geeks get at the smallest of things.

[andrewducker]

I have some sympathy for Rogue Amoeba over the fact it took so long to get a categorical "No!" back from Apple, but the other interpretation does point out that if you sign up to an agreement then stropping because you're held to it is a tad childish.

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

It's bloody irritating, to be sure. Why hasn't Trillian been approved yet?

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

I don't currently have any messaging client on my iPhone and i'd love one. I didn't know trillian were currently looking for approval. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

I love my iPhone, but sometimes I wish I had gone for a windows mobile device again. Actually honestly I liked my old nokia N95 and there's not that much added functionality in the ihone. It's just pretty and shiny and my precious.