Qik & the iPhone Woes

I've been playing around with the iPhone. Um, or rather, it's been playing me with crashing apps. I tried deleting them off the iPhone but these crashing Zombie Apps just wouldn't die. As soon I turned the iPhone off and on again, there they were again, minus one or two. So you can imagine with my addictive collection of nearly 100 apps that it took quite a while to kill all these apps one or two at a time. I tried readding them both from the phone and also all over again from iTunes. No good, still infected with the Zombie DNA. I think there is a problem with the apple DRM on the iPhone not playing nice with the DRM on iTunes. It seems like mixing app downloads and update using both iTunes and the iPhone app stores causes problems. I am pretty sure this has been the source of my problems, with perhaps a bit of operator malfunction. I managed to jailbreak my iPhone using Quickpwn and none of those apps seem to have any problems while ALL of my other apps were crashing second after starting. Anyway, I finally gave up and did a full factory reset, scraped all my apps in iTunes, and started fresh. After everything was working I did another quick jailbreak. Why? The only thing there that I really really want is an app called Qik. It allows streaming video from the iPhone live to the Internet. Apple has said no for some lame reason to video on the iPhone. Come on Apple get your head out... I almost thought Apple understood. Anyway, so now you'll see my Qik videos (and live feed when it's up) at the bottom of my blog. There are a couple of other things that seemed neat but not worth the risk of destabilizing my feeble iPhone again. Most of the cool apps seem to be MIA after the 2.0 update. I guess they are trying to redevelope their apps for the iTunes App Store. Oh dear... I feel another rant coming on about Lamers remaking once free jailbreak apps into for profit apps on iTunes.