iPhone Developer Lockdown reportedly iPinkBricks all dev units

Desperately looking for an iPhone dev to work on an app for us? We're close to securing official sanction for this app and need a creative genius to build it.

Answers on a postcard please.

adam {at} fat-man-collective {dot} com

5A240d is available on the dev portal now!

I've noticed a few things in the comments that aren't correct -- one of which is that if you have an iPod touch that you aren't effected. iPod touches are expired just the same as iPhones. Also, let's not forget that Apple warned everyone that legitimately downloaded the firmware from them that this you need to dedicate the device strictly to testing while the firmware in beta.

It was because of the developer seed that I now have an iPhone and an iPod touch -- I started with a touch and the limitations in the beta firmware were too much for me to do without my iPod, so I went ahead and moved to a iPhone for my "production" device.

Honestly, even if you are an independent developer, you should be trying to get a 8GB refurb touch or 4GB refurb iPhone someplace and using that as your development machine -- it's not exactly adding *that* much to the total cost (i.e, the Mac, $99 for the dev program, and the device). Especially if you are planning on selling something -- the cost of the device, if you are working on something that people will want, should be washed away pretty quickly once your app is for sale.

I've posted my "Predating" solution to this issue here:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=467473&page=2

Hope this works for everyone else!

Regards.
Ahmed

I've got an idea...if you cant handle BETA issues then wait for the final release. This amazes me that you people are using BETA (read: unreleased) software and you are complaining about instability. Should I define BETA for you or can you maybe figure it out yourself?

Spoken like someone who thinks lost development time is free...

For once the Steve Job's reality distortion field has a really negative impact on me - mostly I don't care about Apple since the Newton, but the difference between his SDK presentation and reality goes from spin to outright lies.

Where was the caveat "Everything Steve says may be true someday in the future?"

Hi, I'd like to introduce all of the non-developers in the audience to the world of software development. If you'd like to take part and use your iphone for development, USE A DEVOTED FREAKING IPHONE SO THAT IF IT BREAKS YOU STILL HAVE YOUR "PRODUCTION" IPHONE.

If you can't get a second one, then you either shouldn't be doing this in the first place or shouldn't complain when your phone gets screwed up and you can't hear your l33t ringt0n3z anymore.

Otherwise, roll with the punches and ride the wild ride of development. What a bunch of whiney-assed self-absorbed children.

ADC Phone Support is still waiting on some sort of instruction from Cupertino. They are as much in the dark as we are right now

enjoy some time out? was this outage communicated to users? I simply refuse to accept this pre-planned failure as yet another "feature" or "rest day". It's bad planning all the way.

This would be slightly more tolerable if the simulator did not crash so much.