iPhone Can Now Serve Web Pages, Run Python, Open Source Apps

[Decibel9M3]

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/breaking/iphone-can-now-serve-web-pages-run-python-open-source-apps-282139.php

"After the first Hello World application (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/checkpoint/hello-world-3rd+party-iphone-app-compiled-loaded-run-280558.php), hacker NerveGas (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/nervegas/) and the people at #iphone (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/iphone/)-shell have built Apache (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apache/), Python (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/python/) and other Open Source apps for the iPhone. Yes, your iPhone can now be a Web (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/web/) Server and do all sort of 1337 things. This also means that third-party applications for iPhone (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fast-and-furious/no-iphone-sdk-means-no-iphone-killer-apps-267899.php) will happen no matter what (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/oh-noes/crashed-iphone-in-single+user-mode-shows-need-for-changes-at-apple-281717.php). People, Doom could be just around the corner. [UPDATED 3:07AM EST: As a bonus, check their progress on the iPhone unlocking (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/breaking/iphone-partially-unlocked-calls-without-att-contract-279606.php) after the jump.]"

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[tharmsen]

That is so awesome that they've made such huge inroads to unlocking the phone. In the next couple of months we'll have all sorts of cool applications available for download.

[Conan]

wow this is exciting.. Way to go! Cant wait for new apps :) loldoom

[antithetic]

I think this is HUGE news. If we can get a local MAMP (MacOSX, Apache, mySQL, PHP) setup going on the iPhone, this means we can get "off-line" apps! No longer would we be chained to having EDGE/WiFi in order to access the applets we are seeing now.

Of course some stuff wouldn't work well "off-line" such as Seeqpod but applets like to-do lists would work quite well.

Of course, "native" 3rd-party apps would be optimal, but this is a great middle-ground between the apps we can create now and the native apps we hope to have support for in the future.