Apple chief Steve Jobs had exchanged a couple e-mails with a programmer Greg Slipakom (Greg Slepak) from Tao Effect, explained to him why the SDK in iPhone 4.0 prohibited cross-compilation. Slipaku this situation is not like it, he believes that Apple restricts the possibility of developers to create programs and prevents both for the iPhone, Android and other platforms.

Jobs wrote that this situation is well explained article is a renowned expert John Gruber (John Gruber). In particular, he wrote that the quality of native software for the iPhone and Mac OS has never been established on cross-platform toolkit. All cross-platform applications for any platform Apple, according to Gruber, have always been second-rate. As an example he cites the "squalid" Kindle the client for the Mac, written in Qt, and the same client for the iPhone, written in Cocoa Touch, that looks and works like a native application iPhone.

Slipak this point of view is not agreed, and wrote that he now has a lot of quality cross-platform tools. At that Jobs said that Apple has only a negative experience with cross-platform tools. Perhaps he was referring to CodeWarrior for Mac OS X, which prevented developers to use the full functionality of the system, the more so was often incompatible with the latest version of the OS.

"We have already tried, but excessive levels between the platform and developer of applications and generate a mediocre retard the development platform", – wrote the head of Apple, yet again repeating the main idea of the article Gruber.

Slipak again objected that the Mac OS is an excellent program, written in a cross-platform environments, such as Firefox and Ableton Live, and that the quality of the program is not associated directly with the development environment. However, this idea was voiced Slipak no longer in correspondence with Jobs, but in your own blog.

"Lousy lousy developers will create applications regardless of the number of levels – he wrote. – It makes no sense to prohibit the conversion tools such as source-to-source, such as Unity3D. In the end, all programs are written iPhone in its own SDK, so this situation is not comparable with the Mac, where you can completely abandon Apple frameworks and write in the other.

Via Electronista

The Apple decided to delete the word «Google» a virtual button on the iPhone in the performance of Web search. In the iPad was done from the beginning, and now appeared in the beta iPhone OS 4 for a future model iPhone. For those iPhone, which sold now, there is yet «Google», but in the summer, with the advent of a new phone model, there is simply «Search».

Search engine is still Google (optionally available as Yahoo), but that there will be summer, now say impossible. This cosmetic change indirectly confirms the rumors that Apple is in talks with Microsoft about how to install it on the iPhone searching Bing instead of Google. If this is done in the summer, it is quite logical that Apple is preparing to take this step now.

Via AppleInsider

Barely 24 hours after the publication of the beta iPhone OS 4.0, as hackers have managed to run her unauthorized VNC-client. Or rather, did the hacker under the alias MuscleNerd.

On Friday, he laid out a video on which to iPhone 3GS with OS 4.0 running VNC-client Veency as unauthorized applications. This had to unlock the iPhone, or unlock.

MuscleNerd reported in his account on Twitter, that predreliznye beta of Apple's always "very buggy, and advised him not to test them on their iPhone.

This information should not be taken as a guarantee that the release version and the iPhone OS 4.0 will break easily. Now Apple will certainly be some change in the system, perhaps even strengthening protection technology.

Earlier this week MuscleNerd also demonstrated a new method of unlocking iPad, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch is the third generation. The official firmware is not paved, although the hacker said that with its help, you can use with the iPhone 3GS SIM-cards of other carriers (in addition to AT & T), as well as run the application was not approved by Apple.

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This screenshot made with the SDK iPhone OS 4.0 , clearly shows the application iChatAgent. This is a good sign in favor of what the iPhone will soon be iChat, and possibly other types of video conferencing. When exactly this happens is difficult to say: a new model of iPhone will be released only in the summer. Some rumors said that it finally appears frontal camera, and then the emergence of iChat more than logical.

Via PMPToday

For many, one of the most desirable features the iPhone is a multitasking, introduced by Apple for years steadfastly refused. However, recent reports have appeared that in iPhone OS 4.0, this functionality finally appears. It will remind Expose feature in the "adult» Mac OS, albeit in abbreviated form: on display will be no thumbnails of open applications, but only their icons. These icons can be switched between open applications.

In addition, the fourth version of the iPhone , you may receive a global mailbox, where messages will be collected from all mail user accounts. Contacts from it can be displayed on the home screen.

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In the web, in one of the blogs LJ, allegedly started a screenshot of the new firmware version iPhone OS, which is depicted on the desktop to-do list for the current day. The idea of a list of cases, of course, good, but the authenticity of the image, by itself, is questionable.

According to an anonymous sender, the picture sent to him by a "competent acquaintance.

Recall that the iPhone OS 4.0 should be presented Jan. 27 at a special event Apple.

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