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iPhone and Third Party Apps

Comment a comment by PowerPointSamurai, published on 20 January 2007
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By the way, the same NPR: Science Friday podcast on consumer electronics was almost entirely on the iPhone.

Here are a few highlights:

o Cingular actually changed its network to accomodate the device—usually carriers dictate menu composition and all the details of the phone to the manufacturer. This allows the iPhone to give you a list of your voice messages for you to select in any order you wish, rather than having to listen to the William Shatner immitation: "You…Have…Six….Voice…Messages…………Message 1 from…phone…number….5….5….5…1…2. (etc)" before you can actually listen to the message.

o Apple will not allow third party apps to be developed for the phone, but perhaps widgets (ala Mac OS X Tiger’s widgets). This really sucks, because I currently carry an iPod, a cell phone, and a Palm PDA. If the iPhone can’t replicate all the features my Palm can, it’s a no-go. This is especially true of the core apps, and currently I don’t know of any to-do lists in Mac OS X. Some of my third party apps include converstion tools (like millimeters to inches and all that).

o Oddly, no new Macs were mentioned at the expo, unless you count the AppleTV.

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