iPhone Application Installer

Amazing how far efforts have come! Absolutely shameful that this wasn't something Apple included.

What's "Zune2" in that screen shot?

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I want to see Skype work on iPhone (no more bills!). Would this installer thingamajigger install Skype? Or no?

No.

It makes it easier to install iPhone applications, not make all applications installable.

All well and good but where are all the apps? what is zune2 too? Is there a one stop shop where we can see all the apps currently available.

Amazing how far efforts have come! Absolutely shameful that this wasn't something Apple included.

I don't think it's shameful at all. Remember, this is a Version One-Oh product here, and it's unreasonable to expect a fully polished development environment on day 1. Apple obviously hears the noise we're making and even before the iPhone was released, they showed us it was at least feasible to make additional apps, but there's absolutely no point in bragging that iPhone runs OSX if developers can't make use of it, and in January, the Steve made quite a fuss about that.

Just as Dashcode wasn't available the day widgets showed up, or Xcode wasn't really around until OSX got rolling, a "Phonecode" or whatever is surely in the works, with all the good stuff like an interface library. It'll be draggy-droppy and allow you to code in ObjC or Java or even HTML. It'll have hooks into the rest of the phone so you can talk to the address book, the mapping software, the internet, the battery, the wireless radio, the EDGE network, the camera, the orientation sensor, the multitouch screen, the music libary, the album artwork, the speaker, the photo library, the voicemail, the Settings control panel, and all the other stuff squarely outside of the relm of a damned web2.0 "application", which as we've seen so far, is mostly tracking applications for web2.0 apps.

I don't think it's shameful at all. Remember, this is a Version One-Oh product here, and it's unreasonable to expect a fully polished development environment on day 1.

I agree – it'll come in due time. Most developers seem to accept that for granted, and would've happily taken a "The DevKit is coming soon" explanation when the iPhone was released. I think where most of them became disgruntled is when Steve offered the cop-out "Oh look, you can create web apps!" response. (Never mind how very good we've gotten at making web apps tailored to the iPhone.)

For those looking for a more detailed explanation, this Installer.app basically seems to simplify this whole process here, where users would've had to utilize a lot of manual code prompts, some SSH action, and other technical mumbo-jumbo.

Now all I need is for someone to tell me the most simple way to install roms into the other wise useless nes.app.....

Now all I need is for someone to tell me the most simple way to install roms into the other wise useless nes.app.....

I know, this is the one thing i can't figure out.

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What exploit? It has already been cracked. Have you not seen the NES emulator?

Anyways, this is good but what we really need is a good GUI program like iFuntastic so you could just drag and drop applications. Maybe a virtual iPhone and you drag the apps on there (therefore seeing what it would look like)? I want iChat!