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It costs $100 to run your own app

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

The iphone is the only phone we know of as of the time of writing where you have to pay the manufacturer $99 just to run software that you have written for your own phone on your phone. All other manufacturers – Nokia, Blackberry, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Android etc will allow you to run whatever you have written for your device on your device. Imagine having to pay Microsoft $100 to run the application you wrote on your own computer.

Ridiculous isn’t it! The iphone only offers one programming language to build what you want where smartphones allow multiple development environments using C/C++, Python, Java and so on. Another reason to avoid the iphone like a plague.

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Because your favourite sites won’t work on it

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

If you own an iphone or the new ipad then you’re missing out on a huge list of the world’s favourite sites. From gaming to video to porn. If you’re thinking of buying an iphone think again – there are phones out there like the Android, most Nokias and Windows Mobile based phones.  Here’s some examples.

iPhone is missing all these sitesStory via [Wired] via [The Flash Blog]

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Google has started selling the “Fuck You iPhone”

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Well it looks like Google has finally stepped up to the plate and released a product especially for us iphone haters. The new “Fuck You iPhone” will do things like text nearby
iphone users rude images, steal iphone owners girlfriends and send pizzas over to their house at all hours of the day.

Watch their promotional video below for a good laugh:

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what will Apple “invent” in the next version of the iphone?

Monday, January 4th, 2010
The iphone was really invented in the sixteen hundreds

The iphone was really invented in the sixteen hundreds

Its well known that your typical iphone owner believes apple invented a lot of the features the iphone possesses like apps, a touch screen, web browsers on mobile phones etc. Apple really don’t mind this, in fact they want you to think they are cutting edge, even if they are not. When MMS and copy and paste finally came to the iphone many people were convinced Apple had invented them.

It’s also well known by those of us who have been using decent phones for a while now that these features have been available on plenty of smart phones years before the iphone came out. So to celebrate Apple’s ability to pull the wool over Joe Sixpack’s eyes here’s a list of features we believe will be in the next generation iphone. A list the iphone fan boys will no doubt have a great time claiming apple came up with all on their lonesome:

A bigger screen
480×320 AKA HVGA is so 2002 which makes the iphone look like a dinosaur compared to some of the latest phones coming out. Here’s betting that Apple will adopt the WVGA standard and claim some sort of new era in high resolution wide screen mobile video. Even though all the other touchscreen phones are already using it.
Wireless syncing
No longer will you need to dig around for your iphone cable to plug into your computer to sync your phone. Apple will invent the wireless connection. If only everyone else hadn’t been using it long before the iphone
Front facing camera
Video calling on mobile phones never really took off due to interoperability issues between carriers and the exhorbitant prices charged for calls but if done right Apple could reinvigorate this area with the power of the internet. What’s more likely to happen though is they’ll introduce it on the iphone and keep it proprietary but still tell everyone it’s totally revolutionary.

Multitasking
This one is still a maybe but if they do finally catch up you can bet they’ll make it look like they came up with it. Even if jailbroken iphones have been able to do it since the beginning

What do you think will be in the next generation iphone and do you think Apple will try and con us into thinking they invented it again?

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The iPhone has worms

Monday, November 16th, 2009

A while back I wrote about the iPhone having many security flaws. Well it seems that someone has seen fit to exploit one of them (on jailbroken iphones).

Called Ikee the worm itself isn’t malicious, although it could well have done a lot of damage. It exploits a vulnerability on devices where the secure shell (SSH) password has not been changed. Once on the system it changes the wallpaper to a picture of Rick Astley – also known as Rick Rolling then looks for other hosts on the internet to infect.

Ikee Rick Roll iPhone

So think twice before you consider the iPhone for serious use. It’s good for music, entertainment and the occasional  phone call but it’s not for the enterprise world.

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