“We’re not looking at general availability yet, but those happy hacking cats unravelling the iPod touch have decrypted the ramdisk and are now busy installing applications,” Thomas Ricker reports for Engadget.
“Already, Mail, Maps, and other 3rd party apps are up and running on their jailbreaked touches,” Ricker reports.
“The race is on between the cat and the mouse to see who will release their wares first,” Ricker reports.
Full article, with screenshots and links, here.
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I think Apple should make al WiFi-able apps available on the iPod Touch.
I was very dissapionted not to see them on the iPod Touch, especialy Mail, but a chat client would be nice as well.
That would kill those hacks
These guys are providing what Apple refused to provide. I was very interested in the iPod Touch until I found that Apple had crippled it. Where is Mail? Where is iChat? Make it a portable computing device Apple.
I’m fine with the app development, but buyers need to go into the transaction with the knowledge that Apple is selling the iPod touch and iPhones as an appliance. It is sold with a set of supported capabilities. If you are dissatisfied with those capabilities, don’t buy the product. There should be no expectations that future updates won’t break the new apps, and no whining allowed if they do.
yeah, yeah – looks like I’m gonna have to put out even more cheese for all the whining that’s going on these days. Sheesh.
I wonder if the mystery of the missing apps on the iPod touch and iPhone are related to the fact that they use some of the new features of Leopard. Once Leopard ships, we should see some features show up on the two OS X based hand held devices. We should know shortly.
if the iPods would be doing all that, who would buy the new Newton then?
As an add on to what was said above, don’t buy the iPod and hack it now. Wait for the new Newton.
And nope, just because it can, it does not mean the iPod has been crippled. Apple is a business as well, not a charity. The iPod touch is not meant to be a PDA.
There is place for that later and in any case Steve hates gizmos that do everything. iPod touch with phone capabilities next in line for anyone?
Cool! The iPhone/iTouch is a rare and textbook case of Apple telling the customer what they want rather than giving the customer what they want. This will continue so long as either device is artificially crippled…
I’m inclined to agree with Linux Guy. Apple shareholders should be very pleased if upgrading to 10.5 ends up being the key to adding expanded functionality to the iPod touch and iPhone. The devices are already acknowledged as being desirable for users of both Mac and Windows, giving the Mac side a preferential boost need not detract from the appeal to those running Windows but could help give even more reasons to add a Mac for those who have yet to see the light.
Daner and Linux Guy:
Agree wholeheartedly that Leopard will open up new doors for Apple regarding third party apps on iPhone/iPod Touch. Also, think about the free publicity Apple will get for both the iPhone/iPod Touch AND Leopard when it announces new features, all made possible because of the innovations in Leopard.
For example, I recall reading a few months ago that one of the items being revamped in Leopard was voice recognition/control. Notice the iPhone has no voice dialing. Now with Leopard voice dialing can be added to the iPhone.
And just in time for Christmas.
“Cool! The iPhone/iTouch is a rare and textbook case of Apple telling the customer what they want rather than giving the customer what they want.”
A rare case? LOL
Agree with Linux Guy. I’ve been saying the same thing here for weeks. Leopard deployment may be needed to enable planned changes to the iPhone (iPod touch) development.
Amen and bravo to this effort!
Apple is sitting on the best pda platform ever made. They realize it but won’t act on it.
I know, I know, it’s a iPod, not a pda! Well, forget that. It has incredible potential capabilities that the hackers will bring out. This only makes me want one now. This means more sales, not less.
Good job! I say.
Apple telling the customer what they want – no, that’s incorrect.
Apple says, we have this new (insert product name here), we have been working on it for ages, it does x, y and z and we think it’s great, we hope you do to.
Most times people agree with Apple, verified because people go out and buy (insert product name here).
This has been good for one thing: Apple getting a true SDK out the door to developers.
Count on Apple issuing another update for iPhone & touch once Leopard is released, breaking all this stuff. Soon thereafter, count on Apple issuing an SDK.
The catch? The iPhone and touch apps will only be available via iTunes, some for free, some for purchase – devs choice. Count on the downloadable purchase programs giving a cut to Apple (of course).
This plan is fine, but what Devs simply want more freedom, that is, what if they want to sell the product direct – then what?
A conflict is likely to arrive, and the Dev. either hacks their programs onto the iPhone/touch, and risks getting bricked on the next update, or they go with the iTunes distribution game…
As a consumer, to find everything for the iPhone or touch in one distribution location in iTunes makes things very easy and clean. I know the SW will work, and I just sync, without fear of the programs dying upon getting an iPhone/touch update a week later.
So long as Devs can build robust OS level programs, and sell or give them away without fear of them breaking or breaking the iPhone/touch, I should think they can more than live with iTunes distribution.
Maybe when Leopard is announced, Steve will announce iWidgets.
iWidgets will work exactly like Widgets on 10.4, but will be designed for iPhone/iPt screens. They’ll be distributed via iTunes as has been mentioned (on several threads).
MW: We’ll know in less than 3 ‘weeks’.
It is telling that the focus of the new set of apple ads is on how one carry device does many functions…Apple would not waste this marketing focus generating anticipation without lots of future satisfaction/resolution in the pipeline.
I for one would go for some iMidgets. I need someone to bring me coffee and empty the trash.
My guess is that the reason for no iChat on the iPod Touch, is because they know that someone will just end up porting it to iPhone.
I, however, would like an iPhone iChat. :shrug:
Mail?
I realize that Apple doesn’t own the word, but this is likely to cause some confusion. What’s shown on the screen looks more like a browser-based on-line email “app” rather than the more full-featured app that’s part of OSX. Will Leopard bring the Real Thing to the iPhone and the touch? One can only hope.
Dave