[LUAU] iPhone - closed as closed can be

[Jim Thompson]

On Jan 11, 2007, at 11:42 PM, Julian Yap wrote:

> "We define everything that is on the phone," he said. "You don’t want
> your phone to be like a PC...  These [iPhones] are devices that  
> need to
> work, and you can’t do that if you load any software on them," he  
> said.
> "That doesn’t mean there’s not going to be software to buy that you  
> can
> load on them coming from us. It doesn’t mean we have to write it all,
> but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment."
>  - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/technology/11cnd-apple.html
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if they throw in hardware DRM to the mix as
> well.
>
> Thankfully there's alternatives:
>
> http://www.openmoko.com/press/
> http://www.trolltech.com/products/qtopia/greenphone

You're not supposed to be able to run MacOS X on non-Apple Intel  
boxes, either.

But people do.

Believe me, people will crack this egg, quickly.   Especially if it  
really *does* run MacOS X (as in something compiled
from the same code that runs on Macs.)

Hardware DRM:  Maybe, though I'd bet its buried at the software  
level, rather than the h/w one.  I only see two CPU
paths for Apple to have taken:   TI's OMAP platform, or the Marvell  
(used to be Intel) PXA3xx Xscale parts.  Both of these
have linux ports available, so its not outside the boundaries of my  
imagination to see an iPhone hacked to run linux, though getting the  
GSM support working could be ... tough.

Jim