iPhone says "Hello World," here come the 3rd party apps

by Paul Miller posted Jul 19th 2007 at 11:31PM

If there wasn't a vast, cold expanse of internet in the way, we could just hug those iPhone Dev Wiki folks. Apparently a particularly dedicated hacker who goes by "Nightwatch" has compiled and launched the iPhone's very first independent "Hello World" application, paving the way for 3rd party applications to run on the heretofore closed device. Of course, user implications are a long ways away, but Nightwatch has built a pre-alpha ARM/Mach-O Toolchain for other hackers to follow his example, and other folks should be able to get 3rd party code running on the iPhone before long. Exciting times indeed.

[Thanks, Adam]

Filed under: Apple, iPhone OS

Tags: apple, breaking news, BreakingNews, hack, hello world, HelloWorld, iphonel, nightwatch

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carlo @ Jul 20th 2007 1:34AM

All of these "almost" stories... has anyone actually DONE anything at all??

Don't get me wrong, I am enjoying reading all of the stories about attempts, but it's getting to be like the phone contests over the last few months... no results.

Don't stop the stories though, they're fun--and for those of us skeptics ("h8terz"), the stories keep a certain told-ya-so twinkle in our eyes.

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TorenC @ Jul 20th 2007 2:46AM

Is this really an 'almost' story? I mean, there's a working (but buggy) toolchain, written with no documentation, and a work app built on it. Sounds like a little more than 'almost'.

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