http://www.polaine.com/2007/01/10/apple-iphone/ Uncommon Sense Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:40:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.polaine.com/2007/01/10/apple-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-2850 Andy Polaine Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:37:03 +0000 http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2007/01/10/apple-iphone/#comment-2850 <p>That would be a shame, and stupid. One of the best things about OS X is that it really encouraged a lot of development of small, smart applications and widgets. The relatively closed platforms, or at least irritating gnarly platforms, of current phones has been a real drawback so far. If they open it up it would be so much better...</p> That would be a shame, and stupid. One of the best things about OS X is that it really encouraged a lot of development of small, smart applications and widgets. The relatively closed platforms, or at least irritating gnarly platforms, of current phones has been a real drawback so far. If they open it up it would be so much better…

]]> http://www.polaine.com/2007/01/10/apple-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-2834 Andrew Knott Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:52:00 +0000 http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2007/01/10/apple-iphone/#comment-2834 <p>It's a pity that, by all reports, <a href="http://www.43folders.com/2007/01/10/iphone-applications/" rel="nofollow">it's going to be a closed platform</a>. So, despite it runnn ing OS X and seemingly using some of the new technology coming in 10.5 Leopard - <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/coreanimation.html" rel="nofollow">Core Animation</a> and <a href="http://www.cabel.name/2007/01/apples-next-generation-themes.html" rel="nofollow">Resolution Independence</a> (160dpi screen res, not 72dpi)), developers will not be able to create for it... If this ends up being the case at launch, they can count me out...</p> It’s a pity that, by all reports, it’s going to be a closed platform. So, despite it runnn ing OS X and seemingly using some of the new technology coming in 10.5 Leopard – Core Animation and Resolution Independence (160dpi screen res, not 72dpi)), developers will not be able to create for it… If this ends up being the case at launch, they can count me out…

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