Yup, it's true, the long awaited
iPhone SDK is now available. While we wish we were physically there to witness the announcement first hand, we give props to
Gizmodo for their coverage of the event. Unfortunately, while the
SDK is free, once you decide to make your newly developed application available to others, there is a
$ 99 charge for it to be
published in iTunes which is the sole distribution mechanism for it. According to their website, the
developer program is intially
available in the US with a limited number of slots and will expand internationally in the coming months. Yeah, it's a real bummer for programmers, but I bet in some part of the universe, some ingenious mind is already working on a way to counter Apple in their grand master plan.
Others notable announcements include support for
VoIP over Wifi and the inclusion of
enterprise features such as
push e-mail, push contacts and calendar,
WPA2/802.1x, security policies, Microsoft Activesync and Exchange support and all the other stuff corporate geeks been dreaming of. Non-developers who want these new features will have to wait until
June 2008 for it to become available in the
iPhone 2.0 update.
New games such as
Spore from EA, and
Super Monkey Ball from Sega both of which will make use of iPhone’s accelerometer as controls are also in the works as a result of the SDK release. Read the entire
press release here.
With these developments adding a little more value and functionality to the iPhone, will hesitant buyers now jump the gun and get one or are they still waiting for more before finally taking the plunge?
developers, make some good apps now! I'm not gonna spend on some worthless piece of sht. Oh and make yall make some apps that u can read books on the phone. Like eBooks from installer.app
Man! I just watched the video this morning. I am so thrilled at the idea of these kind of applications being available on the iPhone. I just recently purchased the 16GB version, and I am happy to hear that these updates will be coming soon, and for free! Granted, the games wont all be free, and I'm sure the more specialized apps will require some sort of subscription/registration, but I can't wait to get rid of Web Apps and get into the juicy stuff. I LOVE my iPhone, and even w/o the newest updates, its the best phone I've ever seen. iPhone 2.0 will just make it more irresistable.
and, just wait for 3G... *drools*
Alright, now let's hurry up with making a non jailbreak version of Pocketguitar and Iano