Taking a look at all of the recent articles on hacking AppleTV that are appearing on technology-related blogs and forums:
- Streaming from URLs on Apple TV
- Apple’s not fighting back against Apple TV hacks
- We just got xvid working on the Apple TV
(to name a few)… I’m starting to wonder if there’s hope for the same kind of laissez-faire attitude from Apple toward hacking the iPhone.
I’ve never really believed that the iPhone will be as much of a walled garden as Steve Jobs indicated in his post-keynote comments. I think the process of getting third party apps on to the first generation iPhone will be convoluted, but it will be possible in some form or fashion. Someone will get ssh running on it. Someone will get a third-party Dashboard widget to load on it.
When this happens, the vanguard of the iPhone users will go to the trouble of learning how to do it, and that will be the way that people make their iPhones unique.