iPhone apps coming fast and furious
No Apple hasn't finally given us what we want by releasing an official iPhone SDK so developers can create true apps for the phone, but that doesn't seem to be holding back enterprising hackers. Erica Sadun at our sister site The Unofficial Apple Weblog has released a basic text editor and even a screenshot app for the iPhone, while Gizmodo has MobileTerminal, a command line app that should allow for all kinds of iPhone hackery goodness. Gizmodo also makes a great point: the code for MobileTerminal is being hosted at Google Code, which could mean a number of things, including:
- Apple hasn't fired up the cease & desist engine just yet
- They are quietly sanctioning this kind of hacking
- They're listening to demand and are working on opening the phone up
- They already have an iPhone SDK prepared and are waiting for something like Leopard in October because of specific code constraints
