Canada soon... UK and Germany today, France by the end of the month... It's going to be an interesting quarter for Apple. It will be interesting to see if the new countries are going to make a difference in Apple quarterly results.

In addition what will be more interesting will be the iPhone in France since you will be able then to purchase an official unlock iPhone -more expensive yes but official.

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What will be interesting will be to monitor the success of the iPhone in Europe... Even more interesting will be to see what will happen when the iPhone will be sold in France where it will be legal to purchase an unlock iPhone.

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Having native apps can be good... but having web apps can be good too. Why only considering native app ? True that Apple currently is not offering an SDK, so no surprise that they are not listing any of this non official app. But at least it's the first step for Apple to recognize the need for other application for the iPhone. Yes the web apps can't do the same as native apps, but the fact that they are web based and centralized on one set of servers has many advantages.
So I think it's cool that Apple is introducing such listing ! Hopefully this is a first step in the right direction.

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Always the same story : yes hacker will end up being able to install new third party apps on the iPhone, and then guess what:most likely a future update is going to break it.

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Competition is always good for the consumer... especially if the competitor is Google, then the iPhone competition is going to be quite interesting since both Apple & Google are new in that market. That could be an interesting turn in the cell market.

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Good & smart idea (even if it seems that they're following Apple)... In fact I wonder if Apple is going to introduce the same system for the connection with the iPod / iPhone ?

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I hope that it's not just a rumor but real !
If the core Bungie engineers can get back their independance, I really hope that we get some cool new games from the various platform Mac included !
I still remember back a while ago the Halo demo at one of the MacWorld keynote...

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Good article... I am really surprise too that iToner stopped working. I was not an iToner user, but from the technical point of view, like Andrew is describing iToner was in all the third party iPhone apps the one that personally I was not considering a hack. iToner was not trying to install any custom code on the device itself, and their goal was just to drop your new ringtone in the appropriate location on the iPhone.
Basically iToner was doing a workaround on the fact that Apple did not provide the iPhone to be a mountable disk like the iPods.
I really wish good luck to Ambrosia and find a good workaround that can't be stopped by Apple. In fact I wonder too how much effort was done by Apple because of the pressure of the music label. Something that's not really clear in all that story.

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I can see a lot of Web 2.0 site that could provide similar solution. Yes technically a native app could do more, but such apps become even more useful when you can get constant update on the service.
Smart ideas!

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I think that too many people have too much time on their hand... Nowadays you're seeing more and more of such lawsuit for any reasons possible...

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