Filed under: Accessories, iPhone
iPhone 1.1.1 introduces 2 new special folders, possible Nike support
As I continue exploring 1.1.1, I keep running across unexpected changes in the way the iPhone handles certain things I've taken for granted. I was aware that under 1.0.2 that SpringBoard scanned a non-supported /Widgets folder in addition to /Applications. However, two more folders have joined the team in 1.1.1: /AppleInternal/Applications and /Accessories.
I am in pure speculation territory, but perhaps the Accessories folder will relate to those com.apple.mobile.radio and com.apple.mobile.nike references I found in LingoToAccessoryMap.plist.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
momo said 4:34PM on 10-09-2007
You rock, Erica...keep up the great work!
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Jt Hollister said 4:36PM on 10-09-2007
Do these little updates really deserve their own posts? Maybe you could have one post and just update it throughout the day? *shrug* Guess it doesn't matter all that much...
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DrunkDwarf said 4:40PM on 10-09-2007
OK, sweet voice of reason didn't work. Let the chips fall where they may.
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Vball said 4:40PM on 10-09-2007
Hey Erica, it's your friend frim IRC! Just wanna let you know that com.apple.mobile.radio has been in the iPhone since 1.0.
Good luck!
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James said 4:41PM on 10-09-2007
iPhone news = fine.
iPhone hacking news = overkill.
This is an Apple products website, not a hacking website. We don't need 20 hacking updates a day.
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Josh B said 4:43PM on 10-09-2007
Erica Will You Marry Me!
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Charles said 4:47PM on 10-09-2007
I have to agree with Jt Hollister: perhaps instead of a post each time you find something that strikes your fancy, keep a running tab somewhere, saving posts for things that look imminently actionable. It may appease a few of the "oh...not another iPhone post" folks. I'm bordering on becoming one myself!
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Harbinger said 4:48PM on 10-09-2007
Yes, a singular hack post updated daily would suffice. The info is appreciated, it just dilutes the importance of the discoveries to have four or five scattered daily posts that get ripped apart in comments as opposed to a single stream that gets updated with well-founded speculation and insight. You're writing notes now it appears.
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ktulaman said 4:49PM on 10-09-2007
@6: From where did you read that this is supposed to be a "Apple products website" ? If you don't like it, don't read it. It's as simple as that.
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ishcabittle said 4:52PM on 10-09-2007
"Shut up about the iPhone hacks, GAWD."
"You shut up, if you don't like it you don't have to read it!"
"But I'm masochistic and love self-inflicted pain! Don't you want to read about how annoyed I am with the iPhone hack posts?!"
"No I don't want to read your annoying comments! But somehow I have to..."
"Arrgh! We are both reading things we don't want to read!!! How in blazes can we stop ourselves?!"
"Come, we will work together on this new problem. Together, we can overcome the apparent inability to skip over something we don't care to read. Where's my icepick?"
Seriously.
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badtzmaru said 4:52PM on 10-09-2007
It's a blog. It's supposed to be updated with frequent posts. If you want to read something that updates every 5 days, visit ThinkSecret. Geezus.
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mingistech said 4:56PM on 10-09-2007
I am SOOOOOOOO sick of the non-iPhone owners whinning like little babies everytime an iPhone story gets posted.
GET OVER IT!
:)
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Verde said 5:03PM on 10-09-2007
Please Apple, Bring Nike support to the iPhone.
When the Nike kit came out I had an iPod video. I was never going to downgrade to a nano to use the kit. Now I have an iPhone.
It's called upgrading, something most companies want their customers to do, not the reverse.
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wei said 5:05PM on 10-09-2007
Whoo. All this news is fun to hear. Does anybody know how long it'll be til the 1.1.1 jailbreak (for the touch, too) becomes available to the public? :D
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dk said 5:06PM on 10-09-2007
let me quote this story, for my own enjoyment.
"As I continue exploring 1.1.1, I keep running across unexpected changes in the way the iPhone handles certain things I've taken for granted. I was aware that under 1.0.2 that SpringBoard scanned a non-supported /Widgets folder in addition to /Applications. However, two more folders have joined the team in 1.1.1: /AppleInternal/Applications and /Accessories.
I am in pure speculation territory, but perhaps the Accessories folder will relate to those com.apple.mobile.radio and com.apple.mobile.nike references I found in LingoToAccessoryMap.plist."
OMG THIS IS INTRIGUING SPECULATION ON THE TWO FOLDERS JOINING THE TEAM IN THE IPHONE 1.1.1 UPDATE
dear editor,
plz wake up. even slashdork isn't this awful.
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Sean R said 5:11PM on 10-09-2007
WHATEVER! I LOVE updates through out the day. There is nothing like a cup of Coffee and some reading material to get me through the day in the office. *Would you like Internet with your cup of Erica Sadun? Why yes, thank you!*
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dk said 5:14PM on 10-09-2007
okay, i take it all back. sadun and schramm are amazing blogthors.
...under the condition that you assign sadun to blog up-to-the-minute, mind-numbing tech details on the upcoming release of leopard. 5 posts a day till oct 26th. i want to see details on framework changes, bug resolution, outstanding issues. command line output. in fact, just run a bunch of random command line crap on a beta of leopard and pipe it into a live blogcast at the top of tuaw.
...and schramm to detail how there is a new type of terrorist... this time, the terrorist is apple and they are destroying the country with leopard release candidate 2. only the erica sadun and the leopard dev team can applescript america's way to freedom.
...
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Johnny said 5:27PM on 10-09-2007
Excuse me for being on topic here...
The 'Widgets' folder and now these folders have always been the one thing to make me wonder if someone has third-party apps in mind for the future... or could it just be a place they plan to use themselves in the future... or just an extra random folder... or someone trying to trick me into believing there will be a use for it one day... OR.... too many ways to speculate.
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kbv136 said 5:40PM on 10-09-2007
For those of you who say "Dont like it? Dont read it" I would have to believe that most of us DONT. I read nothing in that post (which mind you should never have been a post on its own) I just came straight here to say that after over 3 months into the iPhone era I am officially tired of hearing out it. Especially about minute, seemingly meaningless things that most Mac users do not even begin to understand.
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Leonard Nimrod said 5:51PM on 10-09-2007
Unless I'm going crazy--which is quite possible--I recall seeing a pic or reading that the the iPhone would have Nike+ support.
Just like the Ringtones this seems to have been squashed.
Does this folder appear in the iPod Touch too, Erica?
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