From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> <32d987d50903251739n8c9210n517f0a25e094c14b@mail.gmail.com> <20090326180431.GA28916@tuxbookpro.rit.edu> <14ec7b180903261129m6e5d68e2r27484cefd521db3b@mail.gmail.com> <14ec7b180903261236j3dfa1c58qcbc2116b4a5ed6a6@mail.gmail.com> <3FD7E1D5-4CA2-4BEF-B24B-2DF1E51EC1BA@kix.in> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:02:16 -0400 Message-ID: <3aaafc130903292002n64910d8fnd960716a787d9b95@mail.gmail.com> From: "J.R. Mauro" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone Topicbox-Message-UUID: cc2cdcf2-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:51 PM, erik quanstrom wrot= e: >> 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. > > seems like a risk not worth taking. =A0i'd hate to have a project > fail due to a forseeable problem. There is always the possibility of leveraging the jailbreak, which would also let us possibly do something better than just drawterm. FUSE was ported to the darwin kernel, I don't see why 9P can't be. But I doubt google would want anything to do with that. Still a decent side project for someone who really wants to do iPhone+Plan 9 development. > > - erik > >