On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Michael Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Henry wrote: >> [...] iPhone is just too expensive. ): > > For me, the iPhone OS X UI is just too nice to give up! (principles will > have to bend here)
I agree. But with the current economic climate, I'm giving a pass on iPhone for now. Maybe the next gen. > In fact i'm learning Objective-C right now so I can write some of my own > apps. I recently ported glxgears to OpenGL ES on iPhone as my initial > starting out project - using accelerometer input for rotation... fun fun! Nice! Obj-C is a very neat language. I really love it, partially because it's dynamically typed, but also because it has a very nice syntax. Much, much nicer than C++ (or Java). > [...] I wonder if open source will ever be able to reach the masses on > iPhone? I > can't see more than a small fraction of people running jailbroken iPhones. I guess you would need a (or several) killer apps. Though Apple could have been nicer with its terms... (I mean, up until recently, you can't even discuss with other companies' iPhone developers.) Cheers, -- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
