John Adams’ views on emerging technologies, software engineering, and various hacks
Over at Pocket lint, we have what might be tomorrow’s Macworld Keynote from Steve Jobs. It sounds plausible, with many of the expected hardware and software releases, but we’ll only know what’s going on once Macworld begins. The iPhone API sounds somewhat open, but restricted (you must submit source code to Apple), with an opportunity [...]
If you have the unfortunate luck to upgrade to version 1.1.2 under iTunes 7.5, and you have a previously jailbroken iphone, you might find that Installer.app breaks. It breaks because /var/root/Library/Installer/Localpackages.plist still has information about all of your previously installed applications and the iTunes upgrade deletes all of the 3rd party apps that you have [...]
