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Track List
Broken – Chris Daughtry
Winter- Tori Amos
Smells Like Teen Spirit- Tori Amos
When She Loved Me- Sarah McLachlan
Superman- Five for Fighting

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I’ll tell you why, it’s a simple case of the dev’s wallet.

If I make my application and put it on the app store or just test on my device I need the following:

*Mac computer (2000$ at least)
*iPhone (800$)
*iPhone Dev account (99$ a year)
*a book teaching you Xcode and Cocoa touch

If you added that up with my 32gb iPhone and Macbook Pro your looking at an outlay of 3500$

And after paying that I expected to be able to dev and at least test on
My device.

So I created my first app using sample code called SysSound which just plays back a sound when you press a button and tested in the iPhone simulator and found it worked like a charm. I then wanted to put it on my device, and that’s where the trouble started as apparently I need to pay apple another 99usd a year for the privalige of running my own Apps on my iPhone.

Which brings me back to offering apps for Free, now you could put adverts in them, and most do. Wish at first annoyed me as I assumed that they did that so they could profit from the app. Not so as it seems they do it to cover costs.

So any chance of seeing my helpful application on the store that has been storyboarded have just become a lot slimmer. Thanks Apple, you ever wonder how many applications that would be instant hits get abandoned when they can’t pay the subscription cost?

My main thrill was due to all the rumors buzzing around about the prospect of a new iPhone with better Camera and iChat Capacity (sadly we haven’t got a front facing camera or a bonjour chat client such as iChat Mobile)

Despite this i was overwhelmed to see that so many of our prayers have been answered with the 3.0 update and the new hardware that looks like the splitting image of the normal 3g model (which is good for those who bought a 3G standard during the crazy cheap clearance *cough* one of the Hughes Family Members )

Before i go any further in this post i have to put an image of the new beast in this post as it just looks amazing with the fresh new Apple Applications

Amazing Looking Isn’t it?

Anyway, this new amazing palm sized computer is the latest revolution to be brought out by the currently Jobless Apple Computer Inc

Most of the new features announced are just part of the 3.0 update. But some hardware only features such as the Magnetic Compass, Voice commands and of course that wonderful 3.2mp camera point to a gradual step forward beyond the wonderful product that is the iPhone. As a whole i think the market will and should view this new GS model as just an upgrade and not a new revision (despite apparently boasting a completely different inside architecture)

Despite this, on the 26th of June (Australia Release Date) i will be lining up to get hold of this new piece of joy, and finally ditch my rather reliable 3.2mp camera clad Nokia 6500. Today i registered for updates from my preferred service provider so if they do what they did with the 3G and allow you to preorder i can do that.

One of the features that seems to be glossed over that will be big press when people start to get their hands on the device is the new headset which boasts a “centre switch” which by my imagination means it will have more than just once button since if a device has only one button you wouldn’t call that button the “centre button”

Only Time will tell.