iPhone 101: Hacks Vocabulary Primer

#19 Stan nails it.

I agree Erica is doing a great job of reporting on the iPhone. I was worried about TUAW for a bit there. It seemed that Engadget was stealing all of their thunder. All the Apple insider info and rumors were going to Engadget, even though Engadget is Weblogs, Inc's general technology blog. It was painful having to see TUAW cite Engadget as a source for Apple news. Now I see TUAW and Erica cited as primary sources on many other blogs which is a great sign that TUAW is gaining credibility.

Anyway, back on topic. Thanks for the Jailbreak definition. I wasn't previously sure exactly what the Jailbreak process was doing. It's kind of ironic, I was just reading an article somewhere (slashdot maybe?) about how chroot should not be used as a security tool. I wonder if there is some technical requirement for apps on the iPhone to run root?

Hey! Listen!

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/22/iphone-free-tuaw-feed/

Or, for the lazy...

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=hNQjSv4g3BGE8lINYEsBXw

(this was made before the iPhone even launched!)

Great post! Thank u for your work, Erica! Just enjoied your interview on the macbreak weekly podcast. You r fantastic!

Tto be honest, the iPhone hacking stories are one of the only unique features of TUAW. There are many indistinguishable Mac blogs which all cover the same news. The fact that the cranky commenter could rattle off 5 of them is evidence of that. (I exclude Daring Fireball, which provides interesting commentary, in an entertaining, cranky uncle sort of way.)

TUAW has found a novel angle and should run with that. Fighting for readers by being the same as every other blog is pointless. If anything, I'd vote for less of the standard Mac coverage. (Who gives a crap about the latest security update for Microsoft Office, or another Apple store opening up?!) I have an RSS reader for a reason, and can subscribe to other sites if I'm not getting enough of the usual Mac news fodder.

@ #7
Funny how the majority of comments are in praise of the topic and the minority are the now-oft-referred-to-as whiners. That should tell you something. Frankly, it's quite naive for you to think that the staff is not looking at how many views these topics about the iPhone are getting. I can guarantee you with 100% certainty that the stories relating to iPhone are getting way more views and comments than anything else on the site. If you don't like it, here's a thought for you: don't read the article.

Erica- you rock. This is a great glossary (I know you didn't intend it to be a how-to).

I am a long-time Mac user, yet only an occasional visitor to TUAW. For me, this is not about hacking (I was willing to switch to AT&T).

To me, this is about unleashing the full potential of the iphone as a mobile Mac. For every one of the whiners TUAW may lose (yet they still continue to while :-/) you'll gain someone like me. I visit TUAW many times a day, and your RSS feed on my Toolbar!

#7: "the majority of its readers"? What, the subset of whiny people in the subset of people who leave comments? That doesn't sound like a majority to me.

Just adding my thanks to Erica Sadun for her iPhone posts. I love TUAW mainly because of Erica. Keep posting, Erica!! Because of Erica, TUAW is arguably the finest source in the world for iPhone news.

Well, I don't own a Mac capable of running Leopard so I don't want to see any Leopard related blog postings. Since I don't care nobody else should either.

Funny how the iphone enthusiasts don't complain about the non-iPhone blog entires :)

Thanks Erica!