Also anyone know where I can get hold of Nervegas I want to give him some money?

fatmancollective

I must say, all this iPhone hype has made me go back to my PSP and appreciate how much value it holds. $200 for PSP + 4gb stick, which (with homebrew) has a nice web browser, movie and music players, email client, IM, document reader (great screen for reading books), VNC, game emulator, spreadsheet, etc -- plus, there are even a few PSP games out there worth playing. Without a strong hacking community I would never have bought it, and even as the PSP as a gaming platform languishes, the homebrew scene charges onward.

Brdf

Jumpking04

ovil200

After they succeeded (with a similar, not so user-friendly solution), Apple soon released bootcamp (after initially saying they would do nothing to help people wanting to run windows on a mac).

In my opinion, the project basically pressured Apple into doing something. I chipped in 10 bucks toward that bounty (which ended up being in the neighborhood of $14,000), and I thought my money was well spent. (and I also say this as someone who's got 90% of my savings in apple stock....so I have apple's interests in mind here too)

catbutt

odnet

trickypuss

I completely understand why people take pleasure in Apple's occasional troubles. I use macs, have an iPhone, but also use Vista and XP machines in my home office. They all break. The big thing is that there are so fewer Apple users that the number of problems and complaints is much smaller although the percentage may very well be the same. However, the hype that 'apples never crash' is very loud and of course untruthful. Whenever a group of people come off as both smug and generally less technically informed geekfolk the world-over are bound to want to see them take a kick in the balls once in a while. It's unfortunate, but it's human nature.

trickypuss

Angus

Angus

Why not get Bluetooth filetransfer working? How about MMS? How about a video capture app? How about iChat or Jabber or Messenger or something?

TheRealChip

Monty

phantam

Bape

Yes, but that hasnt stopped people from making software for the PSP, and that thing is one of the most hacked portable devices out there today.

And what has that done for the PSP? It has kept it out of obscurity and from being a giant failure for Sony (in terms of hardware sales at least, their software is suffering severly, as well as their profits).

Everyone trying it knows the risks when it comes to the PSP, but they do it anyways. Apparently, having a bricked PSP is the equivalent to having a PSP with sonys firmware to these people, and I agree. Theres improvements to be made on the iPhone, some of them unattainable (hardware related, etc), so since Apple doesnt feel its necessary to give people the opprotunity to do what they will with the device they paid money for (it is true that they must lock the phone to AT&T due to contracts, but no SDK? Come on!), hackers will save the day and give us a device that people should have had from day one.

Apple isnt the only company, and i can understand why companies lock devices. But do understand why theres a need to unlock them.

diabolusunknown

SchruteBuck

PalmOS was so unflexible that some guys programmed hacks for the OS. After a while and many crashes some guy programmed the "HackMaster" and that minimized all the problems.
Still, a friend of mine turned his Palm V into a paperweight after applying a bad hack.

Nowadays Palm has integrated many features into PalmOS that were once achieved by hacks.

Apple will not be able to keep up with the people and will eventually release some kind of SDK or at least guidelines for programmers.
The sooner it happens, the better!

mangochutney

Buford T. Justice

Jesus Diaz

QWERTYthon

Joseph

Hahahahaha. Hows that Cleverboy? Good nuff 4 ya?

StackyBotrus

Narual

Jesus Diaz

Anyway, if they can just unlock the phone so you can use SIM cards from any provider with any plan...I think that's what most people are waiting for. I am, at least.

Michael

Cleverboy