<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I think that's very wise advice. To offer a commercial perspective, our customers willing to pay for sophisticated<br>
smart phone apps (currently gov/mil agencies and some mid-size telecoms) have very specific needs and care about reliable operation, development duration, long-term support -- all the things you would expect in a normal project. </blockquote>
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Those aren't going to happen on a jailbreak system. For example they're willing to use Droid and not iPhone if the<br>
job can get done.<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br>Firstly... Linux rules! :) ... and Asterisk too (and the latter is the "on-topic", we must remain this...).<br></div><div><br>The jailbreak system gives you the chance to transfer a native
iPhone application to the phone without the need to register to be a Apple developer and put the application on Apple Store to, and in the
following, put on the phone to finally execute it without programming so long on a emulator.<br><br>Droid (Linux) is great too. And it is better because it is open source, and Asterisk too! :)<br><br>But these devices already exists in use on the world, like many other devices. What can be done with it? Put it on the trash and build many others without reusing nothing? Another technological trash?<br>
<br>And for many people that will get only a smartphone or some another hardware in a life for many reasons, and $$$ is the major factor. Some people will never get one (maybe they will find happiness).<br><br>Droid generally runs on ARM, like iPhone, like many others.<br>
<br>A perfect hardware (that doesn't exist) runs buggy applications. A perfect operating system (that doesn't exist too) runs buggy applications too. A perfect developer (that doesn't exist too) can develop buggy applications too (a paradox here!) because there are many perspectives in a infinite set of perspectives that is not considered during a lifetime.<br>
<br>There are many purposes in the world, not only critical, commercial or military purposes.<br><br>Will you put on trash a old router that is capable of run Linux or FreeBSD, and buy a newer, ... or will you try to use it and learn something (distributed processing)? It is the same for WinModems that, maybe, exists in a greater number than smartphones in the world :)<br>
<br>But I know... Linux rules! :) and we see it growing (fast and faster and faster!).. and Asterisk too.<br><br>On telefony you can get a bug too, like a timeout when programming a operation to be executed during some ms, but for some reason the operating system doesn't respond because it's executing another thread, or a electrical failure, or the hardware simply doesn't respond in correct time (a insect running on it?). All developer spend some hours on headache engineering.<br>
<br>iPhone runs Objective-C, like GNUStep, NextStep, and the beatiful and incredible WindowMaker :) that is supported by GNU GCC. so it has a good environment to reuse to learn about a programming language, about software engineering, about telefony, or about etc... (like many other devices) ... to finally... in some day... develop a critical application (if really capable) or create a better (or not) platform (reusing something (a idea, a soft or hard)?).<br>
<br>There are many people that had and have fun on something like:<br><br>- <a href="http://palm-linux.sourceforge.net">http://palm-linux.sourceforge.net</a><br>- <a href="http://penguinppc.org">http://penguinppc.org</a><br>
- <a href="http://www.arm.linux.org.uk">http://www.arm.linux.org.uk</a><br>- <a href="http://linux-sh.org">http://linux-sh.org</a><br>- <a href="http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com">http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com</a><br>
- <a href="http://cydia.saurik.com">http://cydia.saurik.com</a><br>- <a href="http://www.kernel.org">http://www.kernel.org</a> ;)<br>- <a href="http://www.asterisk.org">http://www.asterisk.org</a> :)<br><br>... between many others... and the list will always grows in anyway making the technological world more interesting and the ozone decreases, and the world clearer, etc, etc and etc ;)<br>
<br><br>Regards, apologies and thank you.<br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>_______________________________<br>Allann J.<br><br>"I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it." (from I. Asimov, 1994)<br>