iPhone SDK Already Seeded to Some Developers?

[pilotError]

Could this be shaping up to be the launch of the Business iPhone?

I know a crap load of shops that would love to be able to develop mobile apps on this small of a footprint.

Oh yeah, and Exchange support

We all heard about a 3rd party Exchange Mail bridge coming, I can only assume that they've been holding back for some reason.

 

[crackermac]

Oh yeah, and Exchange support

We all heard about a 3rd party Exchange Mail bridge coming, I can only assume that they've been holding back for some reason.

Uh oh. Try and hold back coleridge

...stop with the Exchange stuff.

Exchange is a joke, and this perception in certain circles that it is THE "enterprise" or "business" email system is an absurdly ignorant delusion. Its penetration in the largest sectors like Higher Ed, Finance, and research science (read: Biomed, folks), is nearly zero. And if you think Higher Ed doesn't count as "enterprise", then you're using a meaningless, retardo-analyst definition of the word.

It is a flip of a switch to enable IMAP use of an Exchange Server, and anyone who thinks it adds any security risk is a FUD-sucking moron who has demonstrated by their lack of brains that they should never be allowed to work in this industry again.

 

[dgdosen]

RIA support

Will an SDK allow flash development for safari? or is that down to Apple?.

I hope there's something in the SDK that has better Flash or Silverlight support. I highly doubt Apple will cede that platform to Adobe, and I'll be it would take hell to freeze over before they added a Microsoft platform technology to the stack...

Still, one can hope... It just sets a bar for how easy it should be to build apps on the device. I'll bet Google's Android will support Flash and Silverlight

 

[John Musbach]

Electronista claims that Apple has already started seeding an early version of the iPhone SDK (software development kit) to a few select developers.

The kit is described as "rough versions" of the tools that allow developers to create native applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Electronista is unable to provide many details on the development kit, but claims it "somewhat resembles Google's OpenSocial in that it mediates between the programmer and the iPhone operating system."

They do claim that there are "clear limits" applied to applications but that even so, at least one major social networking site is interested in creating a native iPhone interface to their site.

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This is great, hopefully the number of applications and utilities that are built using this sdk will be such that it'll no longer be necessary to hack the iPhone anymore.