Few No mobile phone manufacturer was able to create so much excitement about their product. The iPhone is not a simple mobile phone, as some people think, but a powerful smartphone with a 400 MHz processor and more than 100 megabytes of RAM. The operating system is limited but very powerful version of MacOS. Apple initially does not planned, or not wanted to advertise, to open the system for third-party software programmers. After a while, it was possible, to hack the mobile phone by an error in the processing of images in Safari, and so to open the back door to install programs on iPhone. Apple had unsuccessfully tried to close all leaks. Each new firmware was cracked within hours or days.
Immediately formed a huge worldwide fan community, amateur programmers began to develop their own programs for iPhone and Ipod touch. Most of them are free, but there are also several commercial projects.
As an example of a successful commercial project I can call the game Labyrinth. This game imitates the toy, where you should guide the ball through a labyrinth, without falling into the intermediate holes. The game uses motion sensors of Iphone to find out what position the device is kept by the user.
Meanwhile, you can find SIP software for iPhone, with it you can make free or cheap calls through internet. Incidentally, Apple had announced the possibility for third-party programmers to develop software for Iphone. But if you want to develop software legally, you must buy a license. In addition, the programs will be distributed only via iTunes so Apple will have a good possibility „to make money from air“. At the moment I can see only one weakness, the operating system on Iphone, don’t support multitasking.
