C4 conference: iPhone hacks aplenty

Comrade Moren has returned victoriously from Chicago, home of the C4 conference. He reports on the Mothership about the plethora of iPhone hacks at the conference.

Of course, Mac developers are among the most passionate users of the platform, and that’s no different when it comes to the iPhone. There was easily a higher saturation of iPhone owners at the C4 conference than I’ve seen anywhere else: probably around half of the attendees could be found tapping away in their spare moments: checking their e-mail, Twittering away, and often complaining about the speed of AT&T’s EDGE connection.

But the continued lack of an official software development kit for the iPhone is still very much an open wound in the community as well. “They always told me to open with a joke,” said Delicious Monster’s Wil Shipley on Friday night, “so… iPhone SDK.”

Read the gory details at Macworld.com, dear reader.

Category: Hacking, News

Posted by Jason Snell on Aug 13 2007, 8:29 PM ET

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