[FoRK] More iPhone analysis

[Lucas Gonze]

Also, no VoIP apps or anything else which threatens their own product
line.  Apple has to approve of your business purpose, just like the
phone companies.

Which brings me to the issue of people eagerly taking crap from Apple
that they wouldn't take from other companies.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
>
>  Some of the details aren't great:
>
>    http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/07/iphone-sdk-some-of-the-details-arent-great/
>
>  Notably, no background applications.  One 3rd-party app at a time
>  runs, and if you switch away the app quits.  That blows.
>
>  Also, it appears that Apple doesn't want non-Apple languages and
>  interpreters on the thing.  That doesn't bode well for Nu, unless Tim
>  can make the case that it's just a veneer on the approved ObjC runtime:
>
>    http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2008/03/06/apple-bans-firefox-spidermonkey-lisp-lua-ruby-python-rhino-java-opera-gcc/
>
>  Here's a pretty comprehensive analysis of Apple vs. its competitors in
>  this space:
>
>    http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/03/07/apples-iphone-vs-smartphone-software-makers/
>
>  $0.02,
>
>
>  jb
>
>
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