Oh yes I am so hoping for that! And not some silly third party hack or half azz'd done like for Palm OS. I want everything I get via exchange OTA sync on my WM phone brought to my iphone.
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iPhone, iPod Touch SDK Details March 6th
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I wonder if Apple will change the API's with another firmware update the SDK requires. This would cause the current unofficial third party apps to break. This would be very Apple-like, but it's hard to imagine an update only 10 days after 1.1.4 has been released.
Apple makes the real money off the hardware sales (and anything they can get from AT&T, O2 etc). Applications are just more bait... errrr... incentive to get people to buy a iPhone or a Touch. Traditionally Apple have given away the SDK and do not automatically charge developers to distribute their work - because getting the applications out there is the best way to get people to buy Apple products.
Of course the kit may not expose certain functionality, and Apple may reserve the right to manage distribution. They may not block applications like Skype from being put on the phone, but I expect the data service provided by the phone companies will not let it work (something in the terms and conditions defiantly said VoIP was out side of fair use).
I know that I have some things I'd like to play around with - may even get a Touch to help with testing and development.
It looks to me like the iphone sdk roadmap might actually have been released... in the invitation.
Looking closely at the map, it appears to have three parts.
1.) Software Update- Could this be the 1.14 update we saw yesterday preparing the road for the sdk?
2.) SDK- The March 6 event?
3.) Enterprise- Then enterprise users (apparently the main focus of the upcoming event, which makes sense because the biggest hurdle to market penetration for the iphone is that it can't compare to the Treo and Blackberry when it comes to enterprise integration, yet) will get to intergrate it with their systems.
I seems like a plausible, if simplistic roadmap, but hey, this is macrumors. Perhaps the roadmap goes in the other direction, with enterprise users getting it first, then releasing the SDK, then people getting new software, but with yesterday's update, I doubt it.
All in all, I'm excited about March 6. Luckily March 4 is exciting (mini-super tuesday), so that'll tide me over.
Looking closely at the map, it appears to have three parts.
1.) Software Update- Could this be the 1.14 update we saw yesterday preparing the road for the sdk?
2.) SDK- The March 6 event?
3.) Enterprise- Then enterprise users (apparently the main focus of the upcoming event, which makes sense because the biggest hurdle to market penetration for the iphone is that it can't compare to the Treo and Blackberry when it comes to enterprise integration, yet) will get to intergrate it with their systems.
I seems like a plausible, if simplistic roadmap, but hey, this is macrumors. Perhaps the roadmap goes in the other direction, with enterprise users getting it first, then releasing the SDK, then people getting new software, but with yesterday's update, I doubt it.
All in all, I'm excited about March 6. Luckily March 4 is exciting (mini-super tuesday), so that'll tide me over.
Which I assume means you download all your paid software illegally through bit-torrent as well? It's free isn't it. Developers have a right to make money off their creations. I'm not arguing developers HAVE to charge for their apps; it should be up to them. But no one here has the right to even ask them to make it free or else.
and that day will never come -lmao-
damn leap year makes the sdk come out 1 day later than it needs to
This article, along with countless others, makes me stare in wonder; why would people rate it negative, except to see the number move??
APPLE TO GIVE USERES $100 A WEEK FOR LIFE
[Positive:672][Negative:6]
????
APPLE TO GIVE USERES $100 A WEEK FOR LIFE
[Positive:672][Negative:6]
????
Why the heck do these threads go haywire so fast? Firmware threads that go off on Flash tangents and SDK threads that talk about the morality of free software. The SDK should have nothing to do with whether it is moral to write free software or charge for software. It is just a tool/framework/API, like Java, .NET, Cocoa, etc.
"exciting new enterprise features"...
"Please join us to learn about the iPhone software roadmap, including the iPhone SDK and some exciting new enterprise features," Apple said in an invitation sent to reporters.
What do we think "exciting new enterprise features" means?
"Please join us to learn about the iPhone software roadmap, including the iPhone SDK and some exciting new enterprise features," Apple said in an invitation sent to reporters.
What do we think "exciting new enterprise features" means?
I am really excited by this, since I'm going to buy an iPhone as soon as a 3G model is released! Knowing that the Mac development community will have a SDK for native apps makes me really happy and excited to see what people make.
Steve Jobs gives his left kidney to orphan boy
[Positive:303][Negative:11]
SDK brings free Apps fo lyfe
[Positive:1672][Negative:42]
negative response: I dont feel right just taking free stuff...take my money
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i dunno...it is interesting though
Well, using your hypothetical APPLE TO GIVE USERS $100 A WEEK FOR LIFE, I think Apple shareholders would rate that a "negative" as it's an unnecessary drain of money from the company they own a part of!
What I'm trying to say is that there's a negative side to everything. I could see how someone would rate this story a negative because the SDK was delayed by a week, when Jobs originally said it would be out in February. People are picky, and like to vote as such.
get real. Silverthorne consumes way too much power. It's not meant for phones and the like, it's meant for ultraportables and the like.
What a pain, they told you more or less what one might do with an iPhone SDK, but they didn't tell you what an SDK is in general or even what SDK stands for.
Don't half-answers drive ya nuts?
Anyhoo, I hope you eventually find out what SDK means, although, more for my benefit than yours, I'm not going to tell you. HA-ha!
Funny how you simply can't comment all-caps on a forum anymore without raising the ire of other posters, and yet people still do it.
An SDK is a software development kit, which enables you to easily write software for something.
Too many times I have sat on the sidelines. I look forward to exploring the SDK. Hopefully, it's free or isn't some stupidly high cost to get involved.
Anyone else think there might be a double meaning to this invitation? Like usual, Apple normally adds a subtle hint at what may be announced in the image. So of course exchange support will be announced. But maybe a demo of GPS (TomTom was rumored to be working with Apple on a GPS attachment). Although a GPS module hanging off an iPod Touch or iPhone would seem clunky and lame. More then likely they will show a list of developers that have already gotten the SDK and have some exciting products soon to be released. Imagine an eBay app that lets you take a picture with the iPhone and then post the item for sale all from the phone. Lots of potential. Maybe a sneak peek at the next generation iPhone too?
Don't be embarrassed. My guess is that there are less then 1,000 people in the entire world who would have a use for this. Don't let the number of comments here fool you.
If you are a software developer the "SDK" will allow you to creat software that runs directly on the iPhone without using the Safari web browser.
The SDk will be composed some delelovpment tols such as a compiler, linker and such some files to define the interfaces with Apple's system software and some very technical documentation on how it all works. It's a kit of goddies that some engineers will find usfull bt would be usless to most end users.
Following the roadmap, it appears that enterprise applications will be announced at the event; the SDK will be ready sometime later; after third-party applications are available they will be released through an Apple conduit software update -- likely iTunes.
Enterprise?
From a long-time Windows Mobile user (still have a couple getting dusty from my move to the iPhone)...
an Enterprise would need/want:
- True Exchange support...
- Better security - remotely wipeable content, biometric support? - I know for sure that I can get a fingerprint on my screen rather easily
- 802.1x support - cert based wi-fi
And if you want to be in my enterprise, how about either iCal or Outlook task support? What good is the iPhone for productivity if you can't manage tasks?
From a long-time Windows Mobile user (still have a couple getting dusty from my move to the iPhone)...
an Enterprise would need/want:
- True Exchange support...
- Better security - remotely wipeable content, biometric support? - I know for sure that I can get a fingerprint on my screen rather easily
- 802.1x support - cert based wi-fi
And if you want to be in my enterprise, how about either iCal or Outlook task support? What good is the iPhone for productivity if you can't manage tasks?