[Foundation-l] iPhone App

[symode09 at hotmail.com]

you are reading my mind


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From: "Dan Rosenthal" <swatjester at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 4:45 PM
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] iPhone App

> Like I said, Apple is heavily invested in the iPhone SDK, to the point
> of throwing hundreds of million dollars into it.  Given apple's prior
> relationship with Wikipedia, i.e., integrating it into both OS X (in
> 10.5) and Safari, it sounds highly likely they'd support Wikipedia on
> the iPhone.
>
> -Dan
> On Mar 9, 2008, at 3:31 AM, <symode09 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> mhm, I agree. I think apple would love a good wikimedia app - im
>> sure they
>> would be willing to give a bit away (not like apple are running low on
>> money) - I haven't seen the app (ill visit the url now) but, if we
>> had an
>> app with easy dictionary functionality, incorporates news and makes
>> it easy
>> to search wikipedia (the three projects I see as being most
>> important on the
>> run) it would be a great start :)
>>
>> ~~~~
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Brian McNeil" <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 4:26 PM
>> To: "'Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List'" 
>> <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>> >
>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] iPhone App
>>
>>> I'm wondering what you could do beyond Brion's little app when
>>> working
>>> with
>>> Wikipedia. OTOH, it's maybe a tad cheeky to call it a "little app"
>>> because
>>> this looks like exactly the sort of thing that every iPhone owner
>>> would
>>> want
>>> to have.
>>>
>>> Deni, I suggest you mail this idea on to Brion and Kul in the
>>> office to
>>> mull
>>> over and perhaps get in touch with Apple about. Seeing how high-
>>> volume
>>> this
>>> list has been of late they may well miss this suggestion. I would
>>> also aim
>>> higher than an iPhone for the prize, I do suspect that anyone
>>> playing with
>>> the SDK already has one so it might not be an appropriate incentive.
>>>
>>> In any case, Brion's blog entry certainly does pose an interesting
>>> question
>>> about the appropriateness of getting involved with applications for a
>>> locked-down device. However, I think you have to be realistic that
>>> there
>>> will be numerous attempts to use the SDK in conjunction with
>>> Wikimedia
>>> projects and it would be better to have some say over that.
>>>
>>>
>>> Brian McNeil
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
>>> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Stephen
>>> Bain
>>> Sent: 09 March 2008 07:31
>>> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] iPhone App
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 4:25 PM,  <symode09 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hey Everyone! Since the iphone/ipod touch sdk kit has been release
>>>> I have
>>> been thinking about a wikimedia app - I had the idea of wikimedia
>>> running
>>> a
>>> comp for people to make the best wikimedia app...
>>>
>>> Brion read your mind, went back in time and created the first entry
>>> already:
>>>
>>> http://leuksman.com/log/2008/03/08/wikipedia-local-search/
>>>
>>> He raised the interesting question at the end of the whether
>>> "Wikimedia's open-source software policies conflict with the various
>>> restrictions on software distribution for locked-down devices like
>>> the
>>> iPhone".
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Stephen Bain
>>> stephen.bain at gmail.com
>>>
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