[lilskaterpunk]

Congrats to the developers! Looking forward to whats to come....

[frobroj]

WOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
You folks rock!

[Emir S.]

Originally Posted by M4tt Dam0n

I guess its cool for the nerds but there is no point in replacing the iPhone's already incredibly good OS.

Just out of curiosity, what part of the stock iPhone OS do you find incredible? Stock meaning not jailbroken and enhanced.
I'm not looking to flame, I'm just wondering want people are actually impressed with.
I for one find it not only lacking but quite mediocre in terms of functionality. Hence why many of us Jailbreak.

[WillyDavidK]

Originally Posted by Emir S.

Just out of curiosity, what part of the stock iPhone OS do you find incredible? Stock meaning not jailbroken and enhanced.
I'm not looking to flame, I'm just wondering want people are actually impressed with.
I for one find it not only lacking but quite mediocre in terms of functionality. Hence why many of us Jailbreak.

Ever used a RAZR?

[ghandioncesaid]

Once this is developed a bit more we could start to see custom ROMs for the iPhone, including, but not limited to, Windows Mobile 6, which isn't for everyone but the "Touchflo" software would make it exponentially more practical to use on the iphone. Not to mention Windows Mobile inclusions such as MMS, video, cut, cop, paste, excel, word, phone as modem and a plethora of 3rd party softwares that has been developed for years. This could be incredible with the port of apple's keyboard, because the WiMo touch screen keyboard is 98% unusable, and a browser as good as safari (maybe deepfish). I haven't heard anything on that since I switched to the iPhone, but it was supposed to be pretty good.

[Emir S.]

Originally Posted by WillyDavidK

Ever used a RAZR?

What does a RAZR have to do with any smart phone?
You are comparing a bicycle with an SUV.
Have you ever used a Palm device or WinMo?
Have you ever used UME?
That's what the iPhone OS needs to be compared to. Not a RAZR.
No wonder people are happy with it.

[phillipxenxciel]

this is awesome!!! i got an G1 not long ago and i love it~~i still have a itouch 2gen, hopefully they will able to port android or others linux OS to iphone or itouch~~great work DEV team

[Bernie-Mac]

Jailbreaking the OS on the iPhone and giving the iPhone a completely new OS are two completely different things. The iPhone's OS is way better than any Windows device i have ever used. It is lacking in some aspects but thats what jailbreaking is for. We jailbreak to enhance the already stellar OS, not to replace it. Even if this becomes so easy to use and so widespread that its as simple as jailbreaking i am still going to stick with Apple's OS, it is way better than any other OS i have ever used

[safinator]

holy crap

i just read the instructions on how to do it and it said that it could messup your phone to the point where it will never boot up properly and your computer will never recognize it. Thats way to risky

[Carrbone]

u guys are so bent on android... YUCK-

How about loading Palm OS.

There is more software for Palm then probably any other mobile platform.

[y0ungSir]

^ You apparently never used android. Android have unlimited functionality.

[one1]

Originally Posted by safinator

holy crap

i just read the instructions on how to do it and it said that it could messup your phone to the point where it will never boot up properly and your computer will never recognize it. Thats way to risky

big deal, it's just a $45 MOBO. I can lock them up and swap them in 5 minutes.

........I've seen me do it.

FREEDOM is what this is about.

[CAPcadetJC]

So, how close are we to getting a GUI linux on the iPhone? Weeks, Months, or a Year? Is Ubuntu going to be a possibility?

[scottjl]

ok. how many of you out there even use linux, on a daily basis, on your desktop? i'm guessing, maybe, maybe a dozen of you, if that.

linux running on the iphone is something you go "that's neat" at.. but i seriously doubt it will ever reach the maturity and functionality of apple's native os on the iphone. just look at the state of linux desktops (ubuntu and fedora) today compared to the mac and vista. application integration is NOT there in linux compared to the macos, windows, or the iphone native os. i've been using unix since the late 70's (a good chance longer than most of you have been alive) and i'm a huge fan of linux (both personally and professionally). but i seriously doubt anything would make me switch from the native os on my iphone over to linux. it will take them at least a year or two to even reach basic functionality and integration comparable to what is there now (if ever) and by then apple will have moved on even further.

if you want an android phone, why not just go buy an andriod that was designed that way from the ground up? same goes for the windows smartphones. why would you care about multi-booting a phone while you're out and about? isn't your phone for communication???

[WillyDavidK]

Originally Posted by Emir S.

What does a RAZR have to do with any smart phone?
You are comparing a bicycle with an SUV.
Have you ever used a Palm device or WinMo?
Have you ever used UME?
That's what the iPhone OS needs to be compared to. Not a RAZR.
No wonder people are happy with it.

Actually I had a WinMo phone BEFORE my RAZR, and I stilled considered the RAZR an upgrade. WinMo was nothing but headaches 100% of the time, I hated it. I've also used Palm devices several times in the past, but was never very impressed, and was never compelled to get one for myself either. But the main difference between Android and WinMo/Palm is that android is totally open. A lot of people want to install a different OS because they are sick of proprietary this and that. Installing another proprietary system would be pointless in that case (I'm sure someone will still do it tho)

The iPhone will be compared to RAZR and similar phones a lot though, because, for a LOT of people, the iPhone is their first smartphone. For the most part, before the iPhone, PDAs and smart phones were mostly for nerds and business people, but weren't as commonly used as an everyday device by your typical average joe (who isn't particularly technically-inclined or working in a large corporate environment). iPhones (no doubt in part due to Apple's monstrous advertising campaigns) have really widened the smartphone frontier and a lot of people have upgraded to them, who were never interested in smart phones before.


Oh, and scottj: No android phone was designed that way from the 'ground up'. When android was being developed, there was no specific hardware in mind, it is a completely open operating system, and was designed to run on many different types of hardware. Just because HTC got the first couple of gPhones doesn't mean there won't be a lot more diversity in the future. Android is designed to be adapted to whatever hardware you need to run it on.


As for ubuntu and other common desktop linux distros, I seriously doubt you'll ever see them ported to the iPhone. The entire user environment would have to be rewritten, and the entire suite of program packages would have to be redesigned to include strictly mobile applications. Once you've replaced the GUI and the entire set of program packages, it's essentially an entirely different distro. The reason you hear so much about android is because it's a linux distro designed for mobile phones, which is what is needed here.