iPhone ROM Development $1000

[krusty46]

Originally Posted by Dr.8820

i have a chevy camero, can someone tell me how to make it look like a ford mustang? i've got $20.

Make it $21 and I'll get it to sync with iTunes too

[BlackDynamite]

Originally Posted by cellguyn91

Not possible at all. Processor architecture, the iphone's capacitive screen, Apple not releasing it's source code and sooo many more reasons. Yes, getting iphone apps to work on WM can be done, much in the same way I can play the original Oregon Trail with an emulator on my PC. Does that mean I can use Mac OS on my PC? Negative sir. Not possible. Also, iphone apps and WM apps are generally very basic as compared to Mac and PC software. So, if a dev sees an app they like for iphone, rewriting it for WM is generally not that complicated. So, link all the iphone apps you want to that work on WM, it's irrelevant to the porting of iphone OS. Basically what you are asking for is a ground up rewrite of the OS for an HTC device. You do understand how many millions Apple spent on development of their OS right? Your 1k wouldn't even pay for the scratch paper the developers use.

Uh, Mac OS DOES work on a pc man, lol, where have you been? You can also run Windows on a Mac. This has been the case for a few years now...

[EGOvoruhk]

Originally Posted by cellguyn91

Processor architecture

Both the iPhone and the Touch Pro2 use the ARM architecture

[newone757]

Originally Posted by SaltyDawg

Uh, Mac OS DOES work on a pc man, lol, where have you been? You can also run Windows on a Mac. This has been the case for a few years now...

yes it does. and pretty well too(requires some pretty tech-savy work). I used to have a hackintosh lol, ran leopard on my entry level pc for a few months

But that is way different from this.

and to whoever was sayin drivers are small and not that hard to write you need to stfu lol. Why do you think its such a big deal for manufacturers to release drivers for updated OS and whatnot?? remember when vista 1st came out and there were next to no drivers for it?? yeah, that sucked


close this ridiculous thread

[EGOvoruhk]

Originally Posted by newone757

But that is way different from this. the reason hackers were able to run mac os on a pc is because apple switched its processor types to the same architecture windows uses. Since iphone and our phones are on completely different processors its not gonna happen. thats the biggest hurdle besides legal stuff

Wrong. They are running on the same type of architecture, ARM. If the source for the OS was available, a port could be made. The reason you can run OS X on a PC is because of all the open source OS X is built on top of made it easy for hackers to enable booting, not to mention the fact that x86 Macs use EFI, which isn't some proprietary Apple thing

[newone757]

Originally Posted by EGOvoruhk

Wrong. They are running on the same type of architecture, ARM. If the source for the OS was available, a port could be made. The reason you can run OS X on a PC is because of all the open source OS X is built on top of made it easy for hackers to enable booting, not to mention the fact that x86 Macs use EFI, which isn't some proprietary Apple thing

yah i was wrong. had to go back and look up the specs. edited right before you finished quoting lol


either way anybody who knows anything knows this will not happen. and shouldn't IMO

[Mr.KLeen]

wow cant believe this thread is still going

[ChristopherJLee]

Thank you for all the comments, I wanted to see how far this thread could go. The intention of the $1000 was simply to get people's attention. There are at a minimum 10 different people developing ROM's for the touch pro 2 using WM6, WM6.5, and Android, for free. These developers do a great job and make the kind of necessary enhancements that should have been included.



Someone mentioned above syncing mp3's with itunes, while that is a handy feature, not what i was looking for. It's the applications that set,the iphone apart, and the fact that you can modify the menus on your computer.

Using the ipod touch tethered to your tp2 doesnt' work that well. The location based services work off of the nearest hotspot and a cellular phone doesn't broadcast the correct location. Tried this method for months but finally got fed up with it. Carrying my blackberry curve, tp2 and ipod touch wasn't as user friendly as you might think.

How about an iphone emulator that downscales the resolution of the touch pro 2 to iphone resolution? Surely using the apple SDK that would be possible. All I want is the apps.

[cge10]

if i was you i would juts get a app called kinoma play apparently it has the ability to sync with iTunes also the iphones has multi touch which would be impossible to get on a resistive screen

[SmknJoe]

Originally Posted by ChristopherJLee

Thank you for all the comments, I wanted to see how far this thread could go. The intention of the $1000 was simply to get people's attention. There are at a minimum 10 different people developing ROM's for the touch pro 2 using WM6, WM6.5, and Android, for free. These developers do a great job and make the kind of necessary enhancements that should have been included.



Someone mentioned above syncing mp3's with itunes, while that is a handy feature, not what i was looking for. It's the applications that set,the iphone apart, and the fact that you can modify the menus on your computer.

Using the ipod touch tethered to your tp2 doesnt' work that well. The location based services work off of the nearest hotspot and a cellular phone doesn't broadcast the correct location. Tried this method for months but finally got fed up with it. Carrying my blackberry curve, tp2 and ipod touch wasn't as user friendly as you might think.

How about an iphone emulator that downscales the resolution of the touch pro 2 to iphone resolution? Surely using the apple SDK that would be possible. All I want is the apps.

@ the closet iPhone Fan.


I think what you're saying is that you want an iPhone. The hard way?...


Or, is it you're just feeling really left out at parties while your friends are comparing/competing with who's got better apps on their iPhone?...dude.


The only reason why I would ever want to see this developed is to see you out of the $1000.