Waited for a day to install iPhone SDK 3.0 in an interesting VM

I found this iDenebMacOSX 10.5.7z thing that supposed to allow me to have a running Mac OSX 10.5.7 in a VMWare. So I tried it on my home machine as it seems to work. The VM machine does not work after it's being rebooted, but since I was thinking about using it just for learning iPhone SDK, so I think it's an OK compromise.

But then I found out something horrible about using that VM: the VM has super serious perofrmance issue when accessing Windows Network thru Samba. In fact, it took almost half a day trying to install iPhone SDK 3.0 from a .dmg that sit on a Windows machine, and it still had 38 hours to go as I shuted it down a few hours ago.

So then I was wonder if it will be faster to simply download it form the Apple site thru Internet. Attempting to run that VM on my Lenovo tablet PC was a failure because it does not have the required hardware (like the duo core), so I will give my office laptop a try and see how goes.

iPhoneBrowser stopped working!!

For some reason, the iPhoneBrowser stopped working on my Office Machine (Windows XP), laptop (Windows 7) and home desktop (also Windows 7). I tried various different ways and they all failed. Luckily my netbook still have no problem so I can continue using it to access my iPod Touch.

Rage

Why can't Apple see this golden opportunity on Corporate market? I've been doing pure .Net and C# for 7+ years and yet I started studying Objective C since 2 months ago just so that I can do some Touch app that actually works. And PLEASE Microsoft, forgot about the old Windows MObile platform and let Zune team x .Net Framework and related a kick butt Windows Touch platform so that I DON'T HAVE TO LEARN objective C to write good Touch app. Ahhh ... rage!!! –

My iPhone question at Stack Overflow

My post

It started one day while I was using my iPod Touch: wouldn't it be cool to have XXX function (from our internal desktop application) available on iPhone as an native app.

I had that idea because (A) I think our current bulky desktop internal 6+ years old application suite need a major face lift, and (B) instead of continue our waterfall development methodology, which usually resulted in project canned after tens of people spending months on something that no user cares, I hope that we can start doing lots of tiny project with 2 weeks iteration cycle using Agile methodology.

Oh, can I also want to find an excuse to use XCode in the office.

After researching, I found out that pretty much NO COMPANY do iPhone native intranet application because no company wants their internal development need controlled by Apple who tends to kill cool app like Google Talk. And since our company ultra concern about security and safety, the phrase "using jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch" is the same as saying "please fire me".

So I did plan B: using ComponentOne iPhone Studio to do a iPhone optimized intranet web application. I spent 2+ weeks and is about to finish it. My supervisor seemed very excited about it, so hopefully we can turn it into a long term project.

My question is: does any of you tried writing a iPhone application (either native app or web based app) for your company's internal use, and what is the technical and political challenge?


DK