The iPhone is out and about, and everyone waiting in line for hours/days got one (including Woz, and the mayor of Philadelphia who apparently had nothing better to do). Unboxing pictures here, dissecting pictures here, PDF manual, and one of the best-designed iPhone web apps can be found here: the iPhoneAppsManager (requires a Safari/Webkit browser to work). Update: Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Update 2: It is claimed Apple UK will announce a 3G iPhone on Monday, as well as deals with Vodafone and T-Mobile. Update 3: Lots of screenshots reveal no "weekend/weekday" recurrence in the alarm app.
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Apple employees have confirmed that carbon/cocoa programs (one of the two, I forget which) will soon be supported.
http://digg.com/apple/Third_Party_Cocoa_iPhone_Apps_Coming_Soon
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"your "appz" will be browser based. And probably suck compared to native running apps. I wish Apple would allow real programs to be programmable for the iPhone. Oh well, I don't plan on ever owning one 
Give me a Nokia brick or treo and day."
Yea.... I agree... How can we expect to get the flakey crash prone, virus infected garbage we are used to with our current hardwear if apple keeps prying fingers out of the iPhone Ecosystem! I mean seriously... i WILL NOT STAND for this quality user experience that they keep talking about!
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Wow, pathetic attempt at sarcasm 
Just because a vendor controls all aspects of a devices hardware/software does not mean it's going to be perfect. It doesn't mean jackshit if the provided software is lacking and/or unstable itself. Lots of people don't mind the occasional crash if they can enhance the devices features. My Treo hasn't had a crash/reset in over 2 months. Last time was because I loaded up an older game I used to play and it didn't sit well with the phone. And there really haven't been any 'viruses' for phones of any OS that I know of besides a few proof of concept things and some REALLY isolated 'worms' that would spread through BT.
Sure, the iPhone is great for people that don't need/want advanced features like say, an SSH client or nonweb based games or a keyboard that shows lower case AND caps when you hit shift (I can't believe they didn't do a shifting keyboard on the iPhone. I hope a ROM upgrade fixes that 'feature'...). It would be great for my sister who just wants a 'phone' that happens to have a few cool features.
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2005-07-06
your "appz" will be browser based. And probably suck compared to native running apps. I wish Apple would allow real programs to be programmable for the iPhone. Oh well, I don't plan on ever owning one
Give me a Nokia brick or treo and day.