Cognitive Dissonance
March 16th, 2008
Twitterific developer Craig Hockenberry: If you haven’t written code using the jailbreak tool chain, your opinions on the iPhone SDK, based entirely on what you see in a simulator, just aren’t relevant. You might as well be explaining the nuances of brain surgery… Periodically hitting the network is the primary reason that developers want to run in the background… Some have stated that Apple is limiting innovation. My opinion is that they are helping us from collectively shooting ourselves in the feet.
My opinion is that they’ve entered you in a three-legged race. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to realize that Twitterific is just a specialized SMS client, and SMS doesn’t drain the battery much. Why can’t developers use those capabilities to listen for new messages? Some combination of carrier and Apple policy.
One of these days, a carrier is going to get desperate, and open this stuff up in order to win users. It’s going to be awesome.
Via daring fireball
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