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The Reason Why Apple Doesn’t Take Down Gear Live’s Post

Posted January 3, 2008 7:00 AM by Gregory Ng
Categories: Opinions Rumor 

So the big news these days is the publishing of pictures and now video of the iPhone’s Firmware version 1.1.3 by Gear Live. It is no surprise why Apple is not forcing Gear Live to take down these pics and videos: Apple needs them published.

Whether this is real or fake, this type of coverage that Gear Live is receiving is giving Apple tons of information as to whether these updates are a good idea or not. They must be sitting back in their chairs in Cupertino smiling at how excited people are getting at the ability to move around home screen icons and making home screen icons from web pages, etc.

To take this down would stop the conversation.

No manufactured focus group is going to give Apple the feedback of hundreds of thousands of rabid iPhone users that this “leak” has caused.

So now that we are onto the discussion part let me tell you what I think about this update. I am still running Firmware 1.1.1. I have still not tested out iTunes Store on my iPhone. I do, however, enjoy over 80 third party apps including the workhouse of my home screen, Apollo IM. After seeing this demonstration video by Gear Live, I must say that I am tempted to finally upgrade…But only if Apple adds a few more features.

I still want Picture messaging. I still want iChat. And I still want a real copy/paste text function. What about you guys?

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  1. There are decent chat apps as safari applications now.

    Experience meebo and beejive.

    Posted by MarkEt on January 3, 2008 8:28 AM

  2. There are still many apps that cannot be replicated. I just hope they don’t try to defeat all the people that are working hard to make the iPhone/Touch the great platform it is by locking it down further and creating a lot of unlocking work which could go to bettter uses.

    Posted by Miek Hornel on January 3, 2008 10:35 AM

  3. Appollo IM would be even better, if it supported Yahoo. What is the hold up with them. They support everything else. Yahoo IM for now and myspace IM would put them at the top of their game. For now I’ll just settle with Beejive, wish Beejive was a native application so it could notify me, oh well.

    Posted by machetti on January 3, 2008 10:46 AM

  4. They will not put iChat on the iPhone or the iPod Touch. The reason is quite simple and I want to be very clear on this:

    It loses them money in cell fees. If you could IM someone, for free, from your phone, you would be less likely to send a text, or call them. Data is free on iPhone’s Phone connection plus here is WiFi, bypassing AT&T entirely. iPod Touch uses WiFi only. No money in that for At&T or Apple and if people could chat on iPod Touch, why would they buy the iPhone ad pay the contract?

    Posted by Paul Douglas on January 3, 2008 11:11 AM

  5. Miek, the SDK to be released in February should allow the developpers of all the native apps to write legit software ? Chances are these will be available even before my french OOB 1.1.2 iphone can be jailbroken.

    That leads to another question : how will they be able to prevent 3rd party developpers from writing VOIP and messenging apps ?

    Posted by MarkEt on January 3, 2008 11:30 AM

  6. i hope they find a way to brick all the hacked phones for good. especially people with 80 plus apps.

    Posted by greg on January 3, 2008 12:17 PM

  7. @MarkET

    They’re going to be digitally signing the apps and selling them exclusively on iTunes.

    Posted by Paul Douglas on January 3, 2008 2:07 PM

  8. I agree with greg, the updates will get more and more enticing as the months go by, so for all you hacked iphone users, its gonna be update or get left out in the cold.
    By the way, do you realize what a resource hog 80 apps must be his iphone? I bet getting his mail on it is slower then my dead grand mother walking out to her mailbox to get her mail.
    So hackers, if your off to see the wizard then go follow the yellow BRICK road. hehe

    Posted by Stephen on January 3, 2008 3:08 PM

  9. paul,

    the digital signing does not mean the apps are gonna be sold out of itunes exclusively. Nokia uses digital signing as a way to track back application origins.

    Posted by MarkEt on January 3, 2008 4:20 PM

  10. MarkET: It’s called common sense. Steve has made it abundantly clear he doesn’t want any old crap on OS X Mobile and iTunes has already had an application distribution system in beta for a long time. iPod Games, perhaps you’ve heard of them?

    You r question was how they would prevent 3rd Parties from making VoIP apps. Answer: Apple is going to be the one selling the apps.

    Posted by Paul Douglas on January 4, 2008 12:13 PM

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