I’ve been searching the web to find out if any of the iPhone Applications in the App Store are open source. So far I haven’t found any. How about you?
Is the Apple $99 iPhone developer tax too steep of a barrier?
Will WordPress for iPhone be among the first? The most popular?
Tuesday Update: I somehow missed Matt’s article on this topic. It does seem that WordPress will be among the 1st.
Many of the commenters including Scott Wallick would like to see a WordPress app on their other brand of phone, mostly BlackBerry and Nokia, developed using MIDP2/J2ME which sounds like it would then run on many platforms: S60, (Open) Symbian, Android, and OpenMoko. Unfortunately I don’t imagine much of the UI code can be reused for such initiatives, but the backend should be fairly portable.
Mark Jaquith reminds us that the iPhone isn’t an open platform (further reading).
Thursday, July 24th: WordPress on iPhone has been available since Tuesday, and now the source is also available.
I can’t find enough information about the apps to tell if they are open source. I would imagine that Wordpress will be extremely popular, but you might have to name it or describe as the “official” wordpress app. The reason I say that is facebook has shown unofficial apps and groups that suggest they are the official ones. It can get confusing and describing it as such might help people find the one you guys made.
BoxOffice is the only one I’ve seen so far — looks like a pretty cool app, though.