pTerm released, update due soon
Newly arrived in the App Store is pTerm, an iPhone port of the PuTTY terminal emulator. It supports SSH and Telnet, among other things, and has a built-in Control key.
But developer Eric Maland has been in touch with us to say that a 1.1 update is already on its way (it has been submitted to Apple and is awaiting approval). Unfortunately a handful of "major crashy bugs" (as Eric puts it) were discovered after the 1.0 release had been submitted.
Planned features for future releases include multiple simultaneous connections, custom sizes and colors, port forwarding and lots more. Details on the pTerm home page.
And in the meantime, if you download and experience crashy behavior, Eric's message is: be patient. The fixes are done, but when they reach the Store is out of his hands.
pTerm is $4.99US in the US App Store (We haven't seen it in the UK store).
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jeremy Dye said 10:17AM on 8-08-2008
But can you get root?
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delight1 said 10:32AM on 8-08-2008
this isn't a terminal application, it is for connecting to remote servers...
personally i'll just stick with the free, and better, terminal app... (jailbreak)
harald said 10:29AM on 8-08-2008
can't find it in the german appstore :( -- that would have been the app i've most waited for.
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fahne said 10:36AM on 8-08-2008
I was too waiting for an app like this, why isn't it availible in Germany or in the UK and propably in a lot more countries
sterling said 11:22AM on 8-08-2008
If it contains any cryptographic stuff then if has to go through some US government export vetting process. Because we all know the internet keeps things like SSH secretly hidden with the borders of the US I guess?
Oscar T said 10:50AM on 8-08-2008
Feels like the majority of apps are only available in the us store, what about lil ol Sweden n Europe :/ ?
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Stephen.4 said 10:53AM on 8-08-2008
Wow, SSH is allowed in the App Store?
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Jonathan Wise said 10:54AM on 8-08-2008
$5 seems like too much for basic UNIX functionality...
Kudos for getting this on the AppStore, but I think I'll stick with my Jailbreak for this functionality.
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Josh said 10:56AM on 8-08-2008
Apple needs to put a strict limit of 1 update/submission a month for apps, really.
Developers are trying to rush the store to get there first, and are putting out buggy, untested code, then immediately (usually before 1.0 gets live in the store) putting in updates, one of the flickr apps was on 1.4 when 1.1 went live in the store...
If apple would step up and put a minimum wait time of a month on updates from the previous ones, I think it would help nudge developers into taking a little more time to get their stuff straight.
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Ryan said 12:10PM on 8-08-2008
Your aware there is no way for the developers to mass beta test their applications right? That have no choice but to release it and see how the users crash it. There has been at least a dozen articles right here covering this.
Wayne said 1:17PM on 8-08-2008
I would absolutely agree with this, but only if Apple also gave the option to developers to distribute packages outside the app store.
Right now, adding any extra delay between updates would be the worst possible thing. Apple's approval process is already forcing users to live with buggy software when updated versions are available.
Just because Apple is happy to do this (location services STILL don't work on any of the three phones that I have access to in the UK since the 2.0.1 upgrade) doesn't mean they should force other developers to annoy their users!
Josh said 1:29PM on 8-08-2008
Ryan, the problem is... he found this problem BEFORE the 1.0 was even live... And there are apps out there that if you check the blogs, are 2 or 3 versions ahead of what's live, that means they are finding their own problems... a few extra days of work would have prevented that...
Plus, you can do 100 person betas... which would be sufficient I think, at least, an improvement
I do agree though, it would be better if there were a way to do a username (itunes login) based beta signup for apps..
Masseyis said 11:31AM on 8-08-2008
I doubt this will be coming to us outside the States, because some silly governments consider SSH to be a weapon.
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eddy said 4:07PM on 8-08-2008
The developer of iSSH, in this thread:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=6001352#post5999376
said his SSH client got the necessary government approvals.