[Geowanking] Bad news for those who wanted to see location-based apps on the iPhone...

[Anselm Hook]

Those openmoko guys seem a lot more tuned in.

I talked with them a bit to see if it was possible to liberate some of the
gadgets to play with (which it looks like will happen in March).

They put a new site up yesterday at:

  http://planet.openmoko.org/

And have an IRC channel at #openmoko irc.freenode.net .

 - a


On 1/25/07, Mike Liebhold <mnl at well.com> wrote:
>
>  This is not good news, but not a total disaster, although developers will
> be denied access to the client hardware platform, there is no reason why
> anyone can't develop amazing web-based services accessible from  the
> iphone's built-in safari browser.
>
> My sole concern about the iphone as a platform for location based
> services, is how to programatically utilize unique MAC adresses of wifi
> access points for geolocation processing.  I am hoping that Apple willl at
> least expose some level of access to the wifi connection functions.
>
> - Mike
>
>
> Beau Gunderson wrote:
>
> "Apple CEO Steve Jobs stated emphatically that despite its OS X roots,
> the Apple iPhone would be closed to third-party apps, remarking, "You
> don't want your phone to be an open platform...Cingular doesn't want
> to see their West Coast network go down because some application
> messed up.""
>
> Ouch.
>
>
> http://www.betanews.com/article/Report_Apple_IPhone_Not_a_Smartphone/1169746276
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