iPhone Worm Hits Australia

Oh, the kind of software I think of, a large Danish-English, English-Danish dictionary, would never be accepted by the AppStore as the data belongs to the publishing house Gyldendal - unfortunately this house doesn't seem to be interested in getting out dictionaries to iPhone users ;-(.

Earlier this year, however, they /did/ publish proper dictionaries between Danish and English, German, French and Spanish for MacOS X. With

110.000-150.000 words each. A competing company has, though, published dictionaries for the iPhone but only with 35.000 words - making them almost valueless.

At present I'm using Audio Shorter Oxford English Dictionary [600.000 entries] and Oxford's dictionaries to and from other languages [160.000 entries] on my iPhone. And Gyldendal's Dictionaries + Oxford English Dictionary [all 23 volumes] on my Mac.

You can still write your own app and run it locally, without AppStore approval...

It could be worse ... you could end up with Britney Spears ring tones. ;-)

As far as I know only if you're a registered and /paying/ developer.

Just another one-hit-wonder "created" by the music industry because he looked good to females, rather than someone who actually has any talent.

I wonder if it would still lip sync ?

Meanwhile, at the alt.internet.wireless Job Justification Hearings, Per Rønne chose the tried and tested strategy of:

By that logic, buying an iphone is the problem.

It might have a melt down ....

Mike

Correct. Only $100 stands between you and becoming a paying developer.

As a child did you grab the crayon and scribble all over the page, or did you stay in the lines so it didn't get all F'd up?

And since I'm a computer science major I should be able to develop such an application. The matter is whether I find it worth the efforts taking into account it would be illegal - and since the owner might decide to develop the proper dictionaries with newer data.

I don't consider it worth the effort.

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On the other hand, if you've done all the work, the owner MIGHT decide to buy the application off you (it would be cheaper than doing the work themselves). :-)

I don't think so. Gyldendal is the oldest and most dominant Danish publishing house [founded 1770 - and with a market share close to that of a monopoly]. They make their own decisions and the data I have come from an old version of the Danish-English and English-Danish dictionaries for Classic Mac. In html-code - 15-20 years old.

I think the size of the dictionaries has increased hevealy since.

I made my own lines, then drew within them. I've made a lot of money through life doing that, too.

I drew where I wanted, and then drew the lines around it.

You could make a generic dictionary app that can download and install dictionary data, then it would do what you want and not be illegal and be acceptable to the App Store.

Of course - with a proper description of how data should be structured before import.

"Drew"?!? How quaint and old fashioned. Those of us with brains clicked on the paint can icon, clicked on a colour, and then clicked in a blank outlined space ... a few clicks later you click on Print and you're finished. ;-)

I remember way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth buying a large A3+ cut-out model of an R2-D2-style droid which you had to colour in ... my younger brother "helped" and ruined it by colouring outside the lines, and there were none left to buy another one. :-(

I started drawing on the page and then moved onto the desk, table, chair, walls, floor, etc. Rigid artificial boundaries are not for me.