On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:40 PM, ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:02 PM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> There is always the possibility of leveraging the jailbreak, which >> would also let us possibly do something better than just drawterm. >> FUSE was ported to the darwin kernel, I don't see why 9P can't be. But >> I doubt google would want anything to do with that. >> >> Still a decent side project for someone who really wants to do >> iPhone+Plan 9 development. > > maybe I'm missing something but ... why not just do this on the G-1? I > mean, you've got a company (Apple) that you are afraid is going to > view what you are doing as criminal, or you have a company with a fine > that is designed to 3rd party apps. I realize the iPhone has some kind > of "cool factor" going for it, but ... who needs this kind of problem? >
Where or even what gets done isn't that important to me, I'm just tossing ideas out. Drawterm on the iPhone would be nice for me, since I have one, but I have no idea how many Plan 9 users have one. Nor do I know how many have a G-1 for that matter. In my experience, these 'wow-factor' apps for phones get a lot of initial attention, but are never used seriously. Not to sound like a Negative Nancy, but how much utility will everyone really get out of such a port?
