IPhone Download

More than just a music player which also doubles up as a cell phone, the Apple iPhone is fully loaded to support Third Party Web 2.0 applications.

Web 2.0 applications provide greater interactivty and importantly for product owners and merchants, the ability to conduct secure data access and transactions, similar to those used for purchases from sites like Amazon.com, stock purchases and bank funds transfers.

This opens up an arena of possibilities for the iPhone to take center stage in a digital economy.

Imagine this, you use the iPhone's built-in 2 megapixel camera to take photos at a friend's birthday party, you upload it to a web-based photo sharing website like Flickr and you send a text or email broadcast to your friends.

They then visit your site and live interactive comments, similar to services found on Twitter.

As an additional option, you could include links to real-time print-on-demand photography services, and your friends can request for photos to be printed and sent to them overnight.

But the real breakthrough will come when you're able to pay for purchases with your iPhone.

Imagine travelling without your wallet or purse, making payment at a parking meter, buying cinema tickets, paying for a meal with just a single touch of a payment button on your iPhone.

The iPhone's technology architecture means that developers can create innovative applications for the device.

Can you picture youself controlling the functions of your home with your trusty iPhone?

Imagine being able to turn your sprinklers and your sprinklers on and off, setting the washing machine to start up, with just an instruction sent to your home automation network.

If you're away on vacation, your iPhone provides real-time video access to your home's security system, giving you the ability to ensure that your home is safe and sound, even while you might be a continent away.

The first of the supported Web 2.0 application can be found accessed using the smartphone.

Google Maps provides the ability not just to search maps, it also gives you the ability to find businesses and get directions to locations.

While the iPhone will initially be available only in the United States in the middle of 2007, it will also be available in Europe by the end of 2007 and in Asia the following year.

The iPhone marks Apple's first entry into the cellphone market and judging by the responses seen so far, it certainly looks set to make a big splash.

While most Apple iPhone users will be content with using the phone, others might like to delve into the development of the OX X operating system which power the phone.

There have not been official explanations about the differences between the desktop versions of OS X (pronounced "OS 10") and the version that will run on the iPhone, but let's take a look at the development of OS X for the desktop.

Mac OS X is a Unix-like operating system which had been earlier developed at NeXT and later acquired by Apple in early 1997.

Mac OS X has similarities to the NEXTSTEP object-oriented system developed at Steve Jobs' NeXT company after he left Apple.

At Mac OS X core is Darwin, a free and open source software similar to Unix.
Apple developed a number of proprietory components, customizing Darwin to its specific requirements, such as the Aqua interface and the Finder, to create the graphical interface that is synonymous with the Mac OS X operating system.

Mac OS X's technological breakthroughs include features like pre-emptive multitasking and memory protection, which allows the operating system to run multiple tasks simultaneously. This has given Apple the edge in faster processing speeds for applications dealing with graphics and video.

Over time Apple has gradually switched the choice of processor for its Mac computers from ones developed by Motorola and later IBM/Motorola to an Intel-based processor currently.

While not much is known about the version of Mac OS X that the iPhone will be running on, we know about it's capabilities.

It is expected to occupy significantly less than the 500 megabytes of data space that desktop versions of OS X typically occupy.

It has provision for widgets which are small software programs which can be added on to an operating system to give it additional functions.

Key for video fans will be support for the Quicktime h264 codec, which will allow iPhone owners to watch videos from popular video web site YouTube. As of the last report, more than 10,000 YouTube videos had been converted to the Quicktime format and by autumn 2007, it is expected that YouTube's entire video catalogue will be similarly converted.

At the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference in June 2007, it was announced that iPhone would support third party applications through the Safari web browser. This could open up the entire field for software developers around the world to create a range of innovative applications for the iPhone.