Tuesday, October 2, 2007

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  • iPhone Recognizes Audio Email Attachments

    Dan at UneasySilence points out that if you’ve upgraded your iPhone to the latest version (1.1.1) the email viewer application now supports wav and mp3 files in your email. This is surprising to me that it wasn’t inherently in the iPhone to begin with…

    Dan points out that this is useful if you’re using a voicemail service such as CallWave, but also if you’re a Vonage user like myself where your home voicemails come to you in email/wav format. Of course I’d love to get your feedback as to how well this new functionality works on the iPhone - does it actually play the files? I ask because it didn’t work natively on my Windows Mobile BlackJack until I upgraded it to version 6 of the platform - something about the wav file encoding that the player didn’t recognize… I’d assume Apple wouldn’t fall into the same mistake, but would love to hear verification from iPhone and Vonage users…

    EDIT: According to Chris, although voicemail wav files are recognized on the 1.1.1 iPhone, they aren’t playable. Thanks Chris!

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  • A plea to Steve

    Not that it will be delivered, but I just sent an email to Steve Jobs:

    Steve (or his assistant, secretary, mail reader, etc.),

    I have been a devout Apple fanatic for years. I was just about to give up on Apple when you came back. I used the IIe, Classic, LC, Quadra, Powermac, PowerPC, and now Intel Macbook Pro and iMac.

    My wife and I both have iPhones. I waited in line 10 hours to get them and was still thrilled when you reduced the price of the iPhone to $399 because I was one of the first people to have one. I love the device too… it’s a magnificent breakthrough in technology. I even switched to AT&T months before the iPhone launch (shortly after the MacWorld Keynote) to be ready when it hit.

    HOWEVER… There are many things lacking on the iPhone. No to-do list application, voice notes, sketch pad, games, finder, SSH, text editor, chat, etc. I was excited to hear that it was very easy to develop for the iPhone despite the lack of an SDK on Apple’s part. I was sure the overly-simplistic security on the initial iPhones was intentional, possibly an omen of a forthcoming SDK.

    I also understand your frustration with hackers trying to unlock the iPhone to take to other carriers. I am happy with AT&T, and understand the relationship you have with them. Both of you spent a lot of money, time and resources developing the iPhone and the two go together (for the time being). I completely understand your obligation (both contractual and otherwise) to keep the iPhone carrier-locked.

    But here’s what I DON’T understand. Why, are you going out of your way to thwart third-party software development? The iPhone is a great device, but it can be a REVOLUTIONARY device. Apple can’t possibly release all the applications users will want. Why limit yourselves and your customers by stifling creativity? Hasn’t Apple always been about thinking “different?”

    Please Steve, let the software developers in like you have with OSX. They can make the iPhone what it has the potential to be. Just look at the innovation in AppTapp Installer (Installer.app) and the applications already available. It’s amazing what underground hackers and software developers have done with their spare time! They even got GPS-like location service to work on the iPhone, with no GPS!

    Just imagine what they could do with a full-featured SDK to work with!

    Yours truly,

    Brandon Eley
    beley@mac.com

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