Will the Real Requirements Please Stand Up

I got a used PowerMac for hopes of using it to try my hand at iPhone development. I waited too long to get into it.

So when I get ramped up, it turns out that I need OS X.5.6. So I buy that OS which requires an Intel Mac 867MHz or greater. Turns out the dual 512MHz that I had will not load that OS. If used parallel at all, the total 1GHz would be faster as two parallel processors. Nonetheless it would not install.

I bought another used mac. This one is over 1GHz on a single processor. So it will load the OS. I connect it via ethernet to the internet and there is an update to OS 10.5.7 which is thankfully free.

So I had to buy the SDK for OS 3.0 which all apps are required to work on even before OS 3.0 released. Once you have paid for it, the new SDK now requires 10.5.7 so luckily I already had it. Then running the install in the package, the SDK option is not enabled.

There are packages that will install separately but where to put them and how many hoops to jump through to use them from somewhere other than where they are expected to be. Will Apple actually let them be used if not installed from their failure of an install program.

PC Mac

I think I've already said how annoying it is that Apple has gone to Intel processors (PCs) yet require their OS to run on an Apple branded machine. They need to catch up with the times because IBM lost the clone war over 20 years ago and it's the same issue. Besides, what part of anti-trust and free enterprise do they not understand?

I didn't jailbreak my phone, after all it's already a refurb so who knows what problems I'd run into, and I'd have to be 10x as careful loading apps. I didn't try to get a hack patch to load my legal copy of MacOS 10.5.6 Leopard on Vista as dual boot, even though it can generally be done.

The used mac I bought a little over a year ago isn't up to date enough to run the latest MacOS, which requires 867MHz processor or better. The used mac I have has TWO 512MHz processors. Do the math, that's 1024MHz total (or 1GHz), and if the OS actually uses them in parallel it's faster with the two.

I haven't gone back to reading the SDK documentation yet but there's plenty of it to waste time while deciding whether to buy another used intel mac or see if I can replace the processor in the one I've got.

iPhone app developing First Glance

I haven't even gotten my iPhone yet which I ordered Tuesday and should get today, and I am already obscenely disgusted, to the point I might just return the device in the first 30 days and avoid the contract and "Early Termination Fee."

The used Mac I had bought to possibly get into developing for iPhone is no longer supported. Maybe I didn't look into it enough and it wasn't supported in the first version. I have to think about getting an Intel-based Mac. I have more than 4 Intel processors in machines that are fully functional, besides some in partial configs.

Using Windows PC with the same processor supported but not bought from Apple and not containing Apple OS, what about "anti-trust" and "free enterprise" so they not understand?

Why did an iPhone app post turn political? Because they made it political. They artificially limit the device's capabilities in order to create demand so that they can sell new devices every year for 2 or 3 hundred dollars. Either you pay more for the newer model actually using capabilities the old device had but now licensed in the OS or you commit to another long term contract and AT&T (monopoly on iPhone service) pays part of it (as their write-off to advertising) which is likely negotiated much less than what you would pay (or nothing at all considering the business AT&T gets in this exclusive monopoly).

I cannot recommend "jailbreaking" the device. I don't even have one yet. But shouldn't the consumer who paid so much money for the device be free to use all of the functionality of their device? That's really rhetorical but it apparently must be posed as a question. With the new Mac clones, they violate the terms of the OS license that it it not to be installed, used, or allowed to be used on machines not bearing the Apple brand. How absurd is that? Especially since they've begun exclusively using Intel processors, the PC monopoly of processors just now getting some competition after all these years.

Sadly the largest of corporations become more and more like the government. They pretend that they have the right to force consumers to give away Constitutional rights, as if they could be waived. For example giving up the right to sue started with credit cards and now filtered through every "service" contract. Some now add small claims court, as the minimal amount in the Constitution is low, but what of limits by small claims courts, the Constitution says nothing about limits.

What can we do? We can only vote with our wallets. Stop paying companies who require leaching agreements, including using credit cards even if you pay them off every month. It the convenience worth the loss of liberties?

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PS I forgot to bring up the documentation which contains hundreds of files many with hundres of pages that appear to be a competition on who can wrote the most content and say nothing. They try to be high level new user technical info, then they delve into low level UNIX structures. ???

iPhone development

I've been poring through literally hundreds of iPhone SDK (Software Developers Kit) files.

I have a LOT of reading to do.

I can't wait to get my iPhone. I just ordered it and it should be here Thursday.

So it won't be the newest model in a couple of months. Maybe I'll have an app ready before then, who knows.