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Tech publisher O'Reilly Media has released a book targeted to unsanctioned developers on Apple's iPhone mobile platform. iPhone Open Application Development tells coders how to write programs for "jailbroken" iPhones — those that have been hacked to remove Apple's block on unsanctioned software. All of which seems outdated, now that Apple has released instructions for writing approved apps. O'Reilly will surely rush out another book on that subject. But why not just sell one book to everyone? That seems easier.
O'Reilly sells iPhone book to "hackers"
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4:20 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Jordan Golson
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Easier but less profitable.
I remember back when O'Reilly books were actually useful.
There's just something wrong with the big O'Reilly display at my local Barnes and Nobles
Boy, I sure do miss the Stacey's in downtown Palo Alto. (sniff)
I like to see what they display on the cover. Plus I'm sure the book will have future use, like a back issue of 2600.
I dunno. Apparently a large percentage of iPhones are unlocked, and there may be some growing rebellion at Apple's walled-Auschwitz for iPhone apps. I predict sales of books like this will spike after the first big instance of Apple disapproving a useful iPhone app.
(But is anyone else tired of the animal motif O'Really uses on all these book covers? Granted, they're more tasteful than the typical computer book, but as a mnemonic device they ceased to function long ago.)
Shouldn't Tatiana the Tiger be on the cover of this book?
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