iPhone SDK and iFund

[Antonio Linares]

The iPhone SDK is already available (free):
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/

Kleiner, Perkins Caufield will invest $ 100,000,000 of venture capital in companies developing applications for iPhone and iPod touch:
http://www.kpcb.com/initiatives/ifund/index.html

Those are great news!

[Antonio Linares]

The iPhone simulator running on Leopard:

[Antonio Linares]

Using Safari from the iPhone simulator:

[Antonio Linares]

Watching photos from the iPhone simulator:

[Antonio Linares]

Your virtual iPhone is ready for you

[Otto]

Antonio, does the iPhone simulator work on WINDOWS, too?
Regards,
Otto

[Antonio Linares]

Otto,

No, it only runs on OSX.

But you can run OSX on a non-Mac computer, though it is not allowed by Apple licence. See www.osx86project.org

So in fact you just need to buy Leopard (129 euros) and have a compatible computer.

[TimStone]

Just buy an iMac with a 24 inch screen. Then you can run OSX and Windows ... but not at the same time.

[Antonio Linares]

Tim,

Personally I own several Macs and compatible computers.

I do prefer compatible ones (PCs) as I can build and modify them myself.

When you buy a Mac you have no option to improve it. On a compatible computer there are lot of choices. Actually I use Core Quad and I get a superb performance.

Also I use three harddisks as I don't want to mix different operating systems partitions, as you can loose all your data. You can't do that with a standard Mac, unless you go for a US$ 3000 (or more) one.

[TimStone]

I understand the problems. My wife uses a Mac at school so she has one at home, and a laptop to go back and forth. I bought her a new iPod for Christmas ( the touch screen one ) but it won't work on her iMac because it requires a newer MAC OS ... and that cannot be installed on the older iMac. "Older" means 3 years ! So, to use the new iPod, she has to install iTunes on one of my Windows machines ... and it works just fine !

I've gone through a similar situation with every Mac she owns. To be compatible with other Macs, she needs an OS upgrade which requires a new computer because you can't do simple upgrades on the iMac ( or earlier Mac's ).

[Antonio Linares]

Exactly, Tim, thats what I mean.

Now I can select the mobo (motherboard) that I want, the processor, the graphic card, the memory, the harddisks, the case, to build the exact machine that I want. I love to build my own computers

And I can upgrade them and repair them myself. Soon I will be going for a Core Extreme (eight cores) when prices go lower, and I'll just need to open the case and replace the processor, as I use the most modern mobos (for 60 euros only! Asus P5K-SE -this one is great!-). Five mins

On my computers I can run Windows (Vista, XP), OSX (Tiger, Leopard) and Linux (Ubuntu), all in the same machine, with no problems at all and with great performance.

[Patrick Mast]

Just buy an iMac with a 24 inch screen. Then you can run OSX and Windows ... but not at the same time.

My day to day computer is a Apple MacPro with OSX 10.5.2. I run Windows XP and Vista via Parallels on OSX. This way I can work on Wndows AND OSX together. Works SO nice!



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[modicr]

Tim,
When you buy a Mac you have no option to improve it. On a compatible computer there are lot of choices.

But on non-Mac laptops there are not so many options either (IMHO) ...

Actually I use Core Quad and I get a superb performance.

BTW, quad core mobile CPU is arriving ...
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?optio ... &Itemid=35

Core 2 Extreme QX9300 is expected to have a clock speed of 2.53GHz on a 1,066MHz FSB and it has no less than 12MB of L2 cache.
...
at US$1,038 each when ordered in quantities of 1,000 units a time, most people can only dream of owning one,

Regards, Roman