Comments on: Why not WiFi? http://andyrankin.org/2008/why-not-wifi Nobody is Listening Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:00:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Fred http://andyrankin.org/2008/why-not-wifi/comment-page-1#comment-575 Fred Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:10:45 +0000 http://andyrankin.org/?p=155#comment-575 It's a potential floodgate. The iPhone needs to allow a third party to add or modify its content, and that's a bit of a pickle. Your last suggestion is interesting, though: sign on to a website with your computer and set up an account. Then visit the same site with your iPhone and have it associated with your computer. When you then transfer data from your PC to the iPhone they both sign into the website, get assured who's who and then talk to each other locally over the WiFi. Having this "third party handshake" is a minimal requirement for a trustworthy connection. As to why nobody is offering this service: - there aren't enough people complaining - or, there might be restrictions on the license for deploying this software on the iPhone. From a developer's point of view, you can write a protocol for this which encompasses all wireless devices and let them use your (advertisement-riddled) website. nice blog, enjoyed reading It’s a potential floodgate. The iPhone needs to allow a third party to add or modify its content, and that’s a bit of a pickle. Your last suggestion is interesting, though: sign on to a website with your computer and set up an account. Then visit the same site with your iPhone and have it associated with your computer. When you then transfer data from your PC to the iPhone they both sign into the website, get assured who’s who and then talk to each other locally over the WiFi. Having this “third party handshake” is a minimal requirement for a trustworthy connection.

As to why nobody is offering this service:
- there aren’t enough people complaining
- or, there might be restrictions on the license for deploying this software on the iPhone.

From a developer’s point of view, you can write a protocol for this which encompasses all wireless devices and let them use your (advertisement-riddled) website.

nice blog, enjoyed reading

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