Free my iPhone
There are two things I would love my iPhone to do.
1) Serve as a video camera in case I encountered a breaking news story and wanted to put it on TV.
2) Connect to my computer to give me internet access anywhere.
Turns out -- the iPhone can do both. But they're not Apple "authorized" applications. Today the Wall Street Journal takes a look at the growing industry of unauthorized iPhone applications. The new Cydia Store online brings many bootleg iPhone applications together in a challenge to Apple's official applications.
Among the offerings: the Cycorder video camera application and PdaNET, which provides the computer to iPhone data link I long for. Despite Apple's protests and legal moves, the Journal story says 1.7 million iPhones have been "jailbroken" to break the bonds of Apple's restrictive policies.
Apple .. are you listening?
1) Serve as a video camera in case I encountered a breaking news story and wanted to put it on TV.
2) Connect to my computer to give me internet access anywhere.
Turns out -- the iPhone can do both. But they're not Apple "authorized" applications. Today the Wall Street Journal takes a look at the growing industry of unauthorized iPhone applications. The new Cydia Store online brings many bootleg iPhone applications together in a challenge to Apple's official applications.
Among the offerings: the Cycorder video camera application and PdaNET, which provides the computer to iPhone data link I long for. Despite Apple's protests and legal moves, the Journal story says 1.7 million iPhones have been "jailbroken" to break the bonds of Apple's restrictive policies.
Apple .. are you listening?
Labels: apple, cydia, iphone, wall street journal
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