Comments on: iPhone 2.0 Firmware & Apps Are Live

By: ali raza

ali raza — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:35:49 +0000

Hiiiiiiii …:)
Aslam Aleykum
i want a iphone 2.0 firmware bundle download . Plzzz i am requist this softwere & Eassy Option choice Give me a new softwere Plzzz i am wait
thnx

Allahaafiz…:***

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:04:18 +0000

As a jailbreak app, you have a ton more freedom with what you can install, what you can access, and how you can run…

By: Big John

Big John — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:33:44 +0000

I would think that if they managed to get the WMV side to work with the regular OS X app, they can make it work on the iPhone end. Of course, Apple’s blessing would be nice.

At $19.99/$29.99 and availability in the AppStore (which I apparently can show no self-control with), the forecase for additional revenue should move things along.

By: Tres

Tres — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:08:50 +0000

Thanks Dave- I personally think a sling app could potentially be the killer app for the iphone/touch. A slingbox will almost be essential for every iphone/touch purchase. Just my thoughts, I am would hope the folks at sling see this opportunity as well.

By: CJ

CJ — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:41:57 +0000

Ah, here is why I couldn’t get 2.0 on my iPod Touch until Saturday morning:

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007248.html

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:28:53 +0000

First, let me start by saying Sling will most likely only offer the software if they could sell it legitimately via the App store. I doubt they’d want to limit their potential market to those that jailbreak and I doubt they’d want to invest the dev cycles on something Apple could easily disable (intentional or not) via future upgrades.

(Personally, I say give away the jailbreak software as an indefinite public alpha/beta to sell more Slingboxes. I doubt they agree.)

But there are several variables at play here…

1) The business, distribution, and licensing model are different than current in use. Though, I believe that can easily be accommodated.

2) There’s the development, QA, beta testing, etc that go into the dev cycle. The analogy one of their VPs (Ted Malone, formerly of TiVo) likes to present is that it took 1 year to produce the Palm OS client. So if you figure dev started a few months ago, we’d still be several months away.

3) Here’s the biggie… Technology. Slingboxes currently transmit Windows Media encoded Video (WMV). Obviously, they’ve gotten it working on a jailbroken device. I have no insider knowledge if they’ve managed to do it using the official tools and dev environment. I also haven’t see any other official apps doing video without launching the built-in video player (H.264).

So, in conclusion I just don’t know if they can do it (technically) without jailbreaking OR without Apple’s help – directly or via an API update. Even if they’ve already solved the technical issues, I would guestimate the earliest one would see an iPhone client is towards the end of this year. Ted stated in one interview that 2009 is more likely…

By: Tres

Tres — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:08:36 +0000

Dave – Speaking of sling, now that the app store is out, how do you think sling will end up with the iphone/touch.

You had mentioned previously (http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-06/technology-demo-iphone-slingplayer/) that you were unsure if Sling would go into the App store and stay with a jail broke application. I was wondering if your thoughts had changed any after seeing the app store.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:58:04 +0000

I am now physically addicted to the app store. There is no way I am gonna go back to Installer, there’s enough free stuff to keep me going for quite some time.