Update 7/28: The latest news is that someone has created a basic but functioning GUI app for the iPhone. This comes just a few days after people started compiling a range of open source command line apps for the iPhone.
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3rd party iPhone apps can’t be far off!
The awesome team, led by Nightwatch, working on developing a toolchain for compiling apps for the iPhone has announced success at compiling a “hello world” application. This is huge, because it now means pretty much all the pieces are in place to develop and install 3rd party apps.
Work still continues on trying to unlock the iPhone so it can be used with other carriers. In the meantime though, we have the ability for custom iPhone ringtones on Windows (mac too) & themes, and now, 3rd party applications. Since I’ve signed a 2 year contract with AT&T, I’m much more interested in the customization options.
Get the toolchain for Mac OSX at the project page.
This is pre-alpha software. Be warned. Many things are unimplemented, many things do not work.
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