Apache on iPhone - Some real Jack Bower Sh&%
This morning on the train, I started to browse through the Jail Broken installer app, on my iPhone. In the past months I have installed a lot of cool little tools that have really integrated themselves into my life. LastFm, Locate Me, and SSH to name a few. I have passed over the Apache server every time, failing to see why somebody would need one on their phone. This morning it hit me–Freelance web designers! WOW! think about it. A designer is so vulnerable to having their designs ripped off when they make them available to show to a client. Now imagine instead that designer were to host the site from their iPhone and connect to the client’s network. For a controlled amount of time the developer would be able to show the design to the client and let them interact with all of the features. This is way better then watermarking a PNG file.
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Developers can just bring in a laptop with Apache running on it. And then, for a controlled amount of time, the clients can interact with the design and not be ripped off ( and the client doesn’t even have to squint).
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:40 am
I am not saying that the client would view it on the iPhone. oh no… they would host the site on the clients network with the iPhone as the server. The client can use their computer. Huh? huh?