June 05, 2007

iPhone Wishlist; Third Party Applications on iPhone?

The Apple iPhone won't be available here in Vermont as AT&T Wireless doesn't offer service within the state but that hasn't stopped me from lusting after the iPhone and even drooling over the just released ads for it.

Despite its super sexiness and sweet features, I'm a little worried that it'll lack one critical feature: Third Party Application support.

There has been some rumors that a Software Development Kit may be announced at the WWDC. An SDK should allow developers to develop applications for the iPhone or even better convert some Mac OS X apps to run on the iPhone. Support will probably be limited to small and well optimized OS X applications. That can leave a lot out!

I'd like to see the following applications on the iPhone:

MarsEdit - Blog authoring application
Colloquy - IRC client
Adium - instant messaging
Twitterrific - Twitter client
Dashboard Widgets
Flash Player in the web browser.
Google Talk I can dream can't I?

In any case I'm going to find a way to get one from AT and T even if I have to go out of state for it.

Update: 03.07.07 12:33AM - Colloquy for the iPhone is currently in beta

Posted in Apple & Mac , WiFi by usrbingeek at 2007-06-05 03:10 ET (GMT-5) | 2 Comments | Permalink

Comments

First of all, iPhone is a smaller market than Mac market. It's only on the United States.
Most of the open source software are developed by people from different countries. Thus, it's dfficult to get people to work on an iPhone app if they can't even test it. For instance, one the reasons that Adium's video conference is a long-term plan is that some developers simply don't have a webcam.

Also, note that MarsEdit is shareware. Even if we are informed of iPhone SDK, making a busness decision is another story.

Posted by: Tom at June 5, 2007 04:57 AM

Colloquy is coming soon... colloquy.info/iphone/iphone.png

Posted by: Timothy Hatcher at July 3, 2007 12:11 AM