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iPhone Mobile Terminal App

Friday August 3, 2007 5:38 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
iPhone hacking efforts have started to bring some rudimentary tools for developers to create their own applications on the iPhone. Unfortunately, the process of developing applications or even installing 3rd party applications remains cumbersome to most casual users.

One example application circulating today is Mobile Terminal (video) which allows you to have shell access on your iPhone.

A TUAW blogger writes about her experience playing around with the unofficial iPhone developer tools.

Again, while all these efforts are promising and the tools should only get easier, until Apple comes out with their own official developer's kit, we won't see the true potential for 3rd party applications on the iPhone.
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timotheezz
Posted: 59 months ago
From gizmodo.com:

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/breaking/google-releases-first-third+party-native-iphone-application-285830.php
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boss1
Posted: 59 months ago

...if Google Code is hosting this it probably means either that 1) Apple is giving the nod to this kind of development, 2) they are going to release an SDK or 3) Apple will realize the need for people to access the iPhone as a development platform to do really cool stuff with it.....


I wouldn't say that it's either 1. 2. or 3. It's probably all of the above 1, 2 and 3. This is very very exiting news.
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whateverandever
Posted: 59 months ago
That's not a Google App, it's simply hosted on their Google Code open-source dev site (kind of like SourceForge).
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boss1
Posted: 59 months ago

That's not a Google App, it's simply hosted on their Google Code open-source dev site (kind of like SourceForge).


well if that's the case I'm still have hope for point 3.
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billchase2
Posted: 59 months ago
that's awesome!

anyone get it to install yet?
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MarkMS
Posted: 59 months ago

That's not a Google App, it's simply hosted on their Google Code open-source dev site (kind of like SourceForge).



Yeah. I thought this was an app from a Google engineer or something. :confused:
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johnee
Posted: 59 months ago
sure, this might be cool now, but google might be making it's own PHONE!
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xUKHCx
Posted: 59 months ago
Well according to gizmodo

The application is MobileTerminal, "a terminal emulator application for the iPhone. MobileTerminal.app is NOT an SSH client, nor Telnet for that matter. It can however be used to execute a console ssh-client application."




Link to the google code site here

Hopefully the start of a lot of applications appearing. Wonder what happens when you put more than 16 applications on there.
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ventro
Posted: 59 months ago
That's a really good looking icon. Looks even better than apple's terminal icons.
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yayaba
Posted: 59 months ago
Awesome, this is looking great. Can't wait until more advanced apps come out with an easy way to load them onto the phone.
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