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Steve Jobs Announces 3rd Party SDK for iPhone for February 2008

This is exciting news. Very good for Apple.

(And now I don't feel so stupid buying an iPod touch.)


As for a new iPhone in February, it's not going to happen. The SDK will be the news they need for Q2, and the new iPhone will come in the summer/fall.

Asia deployment along with Europe is going to be the focus. Plus, by then the hardware changes we want to see will be possible.
 
Does this mean that calendar and all that will be able to be edited from the iPod touch? I mean, if Apple doesn't implement, a 3rd party will, right?
 
good stuff. This is making, the wait for the next-generation iphone, much more difficult for me.

The Price cut followed by opening it up for 3rd party apps is a huge move.
 
xenotaku said:
Does this mean that calendar and all that will be able to be edited from the iPod touch? I mean, if Apple doesn't implement, a 3rd party will, right?
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You'd see alternative calendaring apps, not 3rd party mods of Apple's own app.
But an email ostensibly from/to Jobs recently said Apple has touch mods for calendar on-deck. Never heard if that email was legit or not. I tend to believe it.
 
deppeler said:
Great long awaited news....now maybe Apple will add mail and maps to the Touch before Feb...
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I hope they do soon as no 3rd party excuse stands in their way. Surely they could do this now. I just purchased one. My first iPod. I tried to log on my ISP to check email. Damn near impossible to see.

Cmon Steve give us itouch users a regular email app pa lease. :)
 
finally apple has gotten some common sense!
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Please read this link.

http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/05/30/steveatd/index.php

May 30, 2007 2:40 pm ET

“I think sometime later this year we will find a way to let third parties write apps and still preserve security. But until we can find that way, we can’t compromise the security of the phone. Nobody’s perfect, but we sure don’t want our phone to crash. We would like to solve this problem, if you could be just a little more patient with us, I think everyone can get what they want,” he said.
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The iPhone SDK HAS BEEN PLANNED ALL ALONG.
 
When Jobs announced the iPhone he mentioned apps, and all the whiners said he lied. Now that we see the big picture, which has been planned form the start, these same lamos say, "Finally Jobs heard us."
Please, and if you wear the same underwear your favorite team will win. Nothing like magical though to deceive the thinker!
 
Glad to hear the official announcement, I'm looking forward to learning the API and writing a thing or two for the iPhone. Any thoughts on what the development language/environment the SDK/API will support? And on that note, I would suspect they will have a "Certified for iPhone" program for 3rd party developers as well.

Should be fun... We knew it was coming but great to get a solid timeframe.
 
El Jobso is as evil as he was, otherwise, out of his newfound "willingness" he would immediately STOP BLOCKING 3rd party apps for those who opt-out of Apple zealotry.
(Will zealots ever hear/get it : LET US HAVE IT OUR WAY, even if YOU PREFER to have it as Apple dictates).

Remember, 3rd party "developers" 'don't need' SDK, they do it ALREADY!!!
They just need Jobso to leave them alone.
And brainwash faithful instead.
(That is not to say we don't need true [publicly open] SDK, but I'm afraid it's no going to happen)

And I'm dread sure his SDK will be as "Sweet" as the previous one :mad:
... Although there is an improvement : El Jobso stopped to tell iJunkLies about bringing down east coast att.
Now he just telling iLies.


Hope my fellow hackers don't give in to his "sweet" speeches, keep their wares/senses ready, and then hack "SDK" in Feb.
Keep up the great work, zealots will be grateful for that ....... although they would thank ...... Jobso for "his" wisdom ...... when your efforts to 'jail-break' will finally get traction.
 
MikeDTyke said:
Yeah baby!
[...]
iPhone OSX 1.0 thru 1.02 is based on Tiger code, ie. no binary signing, sandboxing of apps etc.
iPhone OSX 1.1.1 is closer to Leopard, ie. binary signing and sandboxing of apps.

Now when did 1.1.1 come out oh yeah Sept, and when is the premiere development platform for iphone AKA Leopard coming out? Oh yes 26th Oct. [...]
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Are you quite certain that iPhone 1.0.x is based on OS/X 10.4? Perhaps you could share your source for that? The only information I can find indicates that the iPhone has been based on OS/X 10.5 from the start:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/01/18/apples_iphone_runs_mac_os_x_leopard___report.html
 
EspressoLove said:
El Jobso is as evil as he was, otherwise, out of his newfound "willingness" he would immediately STOP BLOCKING 3rd party apps for those who opt-out of Apple zealotry.
(Will zealots ever hear/get it : LET US HAVE IT OUR WAY, even if YOU PREFER to have it as Apple dictates).
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Have fun in never neverland, Peter Pan. Have fun with your broken iPhone and your whack security through obscurity. You're lucky your hacked iPhone will never be in the mainstream, because then the more malevolent amongst us in this whacky world would have their way with all your open ports and non-existant barriers between your private information and their slightest whims. --And you would blame Apple for giving you such an insecure communications device... even while you refuse to upgrade for the umpteenth time.

Sighhhh...

When I used App Tap, I appreciated the developers of the best apps, but eventually, that wasn't a good enough excuse for me to jones off of a totally insecure platform with an installer that gives me apps from a fairly decentralized group of developers and an ad hoc system of trust.

~ CB
 
psychofreak said:
Hopefully the iPod touch will go 32GB around this time, and I'll sprint to the Apple store to get it :)
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ya that would be nice, but i note the article says nothing about the ipod touch. yes, we all assume the apps will apply, but maybe not. just look at the calendars, and the apps they left off the touch.
 
kellygeorge said:
ya that would be nice, but i note the article says nothing about the ipod touch. yes, we all assume the apps will apply, but maybe not. just look at the calendars, and the apps they left off the touch.
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Go to the Apple site and read the... oh, hell...
We think a few months of patience now will be rewarded by many years of great third party applications running on safe and reliable iPhones.

Steve

P.S.: The SDK will also allow developers to create applications for iPod touch. [Oct 17, 2007]
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Happy now?

~ CB
 
kellygeorge said:
ya that would be nice, but i note the article says nothing about the ipod touch. yes, we all assume the apps will apply, but maybe not. just look at the calendars, and the apps they left off the touch.
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Read the end...in the P.S. the touch is mentioned...
 
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