Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 24th Jul 2008 00:09 UTC
There are no less than five apps to turn my iPhone into a flashlight, yet I can't turn it into a 3G-powered Wi-Fi hotspot. Why? Because the SDK has more restrictions than Guantanamo-devs can't integrate with the OS and have to steer way, way clear of copyright and trademark issues-so the most innovative, game-changing apps might not ever make it to your squeaky clean iPhone." An editorial by Gizmodo. Many kinds of apps (from multi-IM apps running on the background, to copy/paste) require the level of system integration that either is not possible via the existing official API, or that Apple artificially limits via lawyers.
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2005-07-06
(Note: this doesen't apply for Linux of course.)
Doesn't apply how? That is are isn't usable on 4 year old hardware? That totally depends on the hardware and what distro. Vista can run OK on 4 year old hardware with enough ram and a good video card, so can ubuntu or another heavy distro. But if you haven't upgraded your 4 year old machine past 4 year old defaults.. then you are screwed in the heavy desktop linux and windows realm unless you bought a hell of a machine back then