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Business Week: iPhone SDK To Arrive 1-3 Weeks Late
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So, just attended a presentation by some Apple marketing folk at work - they said that the SDK is out "this month" and "will be announced by Steve". When pressed on the rumours of delays of a few weeks, they said "it's out this month, so there's not many days left before it's out".
In other words, it'll be out before the end of the week. Oh, and the SDK will be free to use too apparently - although we probably knew this already.
As an aside, Flash support was not included on the iPhone at launch for "the same reasons as 3G - battery life is key"...they wouldn't comment on future plans, but they said "for sure, we have a good relationship with Adobe".
In other words, it'll be out before the end of the week. Oh, and the SDK will be free to use too apparently - although we probably knew this already.
As an aside, Flash support was not included on the iPhone at launch for "the same reasons as 3G - battery life is key"...they wouldn't comment on future plans, but they said "for sure, we have a good relationship with Adobe".
I hope you're not BSing!
I'm not BSing, but it could be that the Apple people who were presenting weren't "in the loop" to be told of any delays...they seemed to be pretty confident in their statements on a Feb release though - especially in comparison to how evasive and cryptic they became when they got asked about any other future products/releases. I'm just relaying what they said to me, but they did seem very forthright on the SDK.
Also, off-topic, but when asked about putting a TV Tuner in the Apple TV they said "we consider the PVR portion of the Apple TV to be the iTunes store"
Hummm... sounds like porkies to me
Ok I can side with you not making this up in that stating where you work may violate some disclosure agreement your already close to breaking by leaking that little tid bit to us.
it does seem strange that they didn't just say something to the tune of. Oh yeah thursday check the site for a surprise.
Though you have to admit what you are saying is a bit shakey.
Maybe yuo could indicate what kind of Media your company is into and perhaps why your particular company would give a damn.
Be vague as you like just maybe something i can sink my teeth into more so than this Matzah you've already given us.
We do broadcast (radio and television) and have a significant online presence with a desire for bringing our content to Apple devices in the short to mid term. Can't really say more than that (I sadly don't work in the 'Appley bits' - just managed to crash this presentation as I'm a bit of an Apple fanboy and heard about it on the grapevine!).
Fell free to not even respond but Considering the use of the term Appley. And the whole "significant online presence" I am going to say your not BBC, Time Warner, nore are you FOX.
For those reasons I am going to lean towards actual online thoughts and say
C-net
Wired
The Escapist
Cnn (Why CNN becuase they have had so many little details in being part of iPhone experience my reasoning is as follows
- CNN was the top news link as default with the iPhone
- CNN was in a few iPhone comercials when they where yaking about the whole "web web" thing
Now to be less of a jerk and then wonder if this confirms one of my big fears, only because i will never hear the end of it. The iPhone will never get flash. web sites with flash featues will just write iPhone apps.
This and I doubt apple marketing would not be knowledge-able about the final say for the iPhone SDK though they may-be un-aware of any last second chances or instructed not to talk about them.
The big question on my mind is however.
How is it your posting this without your company knowing?
I wouldn't be so sure of this - someone pointed out that one area where the whole user experience falls apart on the iPhone is when you find a web page with Flash content on it and their response was "we are aware of that". I might be reading between the lines too much (there was the usual banter about how people aren't missing out on video on the web as YouTube h264'ed all their content, wrote an iPhone app, yadda yadda) but there was no outright denial of Flash on the iPhone, unlike a tuner in the Apple TV.
I should probably point out that I didn't sign any specific NDA to see this presentation so there was nothing secret being spoken of (they were even cagey about future work my company is doing with Apple), but I felt that what the Apple guys had to say would be of interest to folk here. I just would prefer to be anonymous for obvious reasons...hence, I'm not posting using my work connection
Well I guess those marketing/sales folk from Apple were out of the loop then!:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/27/apple-event-confirmed-for-march-6th.
It's a shame, as they'd got my hopes up and consequently your hopes up...sorry for being so enthusiastic!
But hey, at least we have a date now.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/27/apple-event-confirmed-for-march-6th.
It's a shame, as they'd got my hopes up and consequently your hopes up...sorry for being so enthusiastic!
But hey, at least we have a date now.