iPhone-crazy iTalians in 36-hour iPhone-dev Marathon

Jonny Evans
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April 04, 2008
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Here's the story: four Italian students this weekend will take the iPhone SDK and begin a 36-hour marathon to develop an iPhone application. The four intrepid developers begin their experiment on Saturday, April 5 at 9am CET. The plan for this iTalian Job is that after 36 hours they will stop working and the software should be finished. 

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These iPhone-crazy developers want to give it up: the 36hoursdeveloping.com website will let you watch them working their socks off across the 36-hours, with a blog to let you know how it's going. The story's not quite finished yet. As far as we can tell from one of those comedic Google translations, the developers don't even know what the application is they'll be working on.  But that's not the whole point, really, is it?  The point has to be - iPhone has become a meme.

We know the folks in Cupertino are enjoying a Karaoke session today. Why not? We hope they enjoy it. But when they wake up tomorrow, we'd like to think some of the Apple-staffers will take a moment to point their copy of Safari at what we, at 9 to 5 Mac are christining, the iTalian Job.

Comments (4)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 04, 2008 - 6:32pm

Er, just so you know, the pronunciation "eye-Talian" is a derogatory slur in the US. So although I get the idea, "iPhone, iTalian", and that you had no ill will, I was kind of surprised to see it. Just so you know.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 04, 2008 - 8:28pm

@ 9to4Mac Noob

you offend me. Take your offensive offensiveness and go offend some other offendee. I am quite surprised at how offensive your offenosity is. And just so you know, political correctness is so 3 years ago in the US. Maybe move to Europe, I hear it's the rage over there.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 04, 2008 - 11:18pm

amen. who cares. you missed the point

Jonny Evans | April 05, 2008 - 3:43am

 i didn't know that, still like the story though. you can seem them working away now