From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <3FD7E1D5-4CA2-4BEF-B24B-2DF1E51EC1BA@kix.in> From: Anant Narayanan To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180903261236j3dfa1c58qcbc2116b4a5ed6a6@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:14:28 +0200 References: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> <32d987d50903251714reea8442i97fca2e84dc0883a@mail.gmail.com> <9ab217670903251724w528437abkc6b4fe44b31f542@mail.gmail.com> <32d987d50903251739n8c9210n517f0a25e094c14b@mail.gmail.com> <20090326180431.GA28916@tuxbookpro.rit.edu> <14ec7b180903261129m6e5d68e2r27484cefd521db3b@mail.gmail.com> <14ec7b180903261236j3dfa1c58qcbc2116b4a5ed6a6@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone Topicbox-Message-UUID: cbc45114-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 26-Mar-09, at 8:36 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen > wrote: >> I have VNC lite on my iphone, which amazingly isn't jailbroken... >> >> -eric > > sure, but that's a client. i thought you were talking about exporting > iPhone's screen and interfaces as one would using a vnc server. Legitimate iPhone apps can access the screen, camera, accelerometer, gps and a portion of the filesystem. One could technically write a drawterm that "polled" for instructions from a remote CPU server and act on the local devices. Not sure if Apple would construe this as "executing remote code fetched through a web service" - that's for a lawyer to discuss - but technically speaking, it is *possible* to remotely control and receive input from the iPhone screen, camera, accelerometer, gps etc; all using the official SDK. -- Anant