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

Works for me.

If I want to use 3rd party applications (I have yet to do so), I want them to just work. Not have to jump through the hoops to get it initially set up and then have to do it all over again when Apple updates.

If it means waiting until Feb. then so be it.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to put my ear to the ground to listen for the herd of trolls likely heading this way.
 
So... does this make the iPod Touch the Newton replacement we've all been waiting for? :)

I guess the iPhone and touch will get feature parity now - if you can write apps for both it seems silly not having mail etc. on the touch too!
 
Outstanding news!!

I didn't need it now...I just wanted official confirmation and timing. Now I feel a whole lot better.

:apple:

--DotComCTO
 
elppa said:
This was entirely predictable, an SDK was coming at some stage. The reasons outlined are perfectly acceptable. It is also acceptable that Apple wanted the product to bed down in the market before opening up the platform.

Remember — the first Mac didn't have and SDK.

Please note Jobs also says they "plan" for February, not "definitely" February, so don't start whinging on Feb 1st when we don't have your SDK.
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Wouldnt make a difference if he said "definitely", we all know that when Jobs says February he really means the day before March 1st.
 
Gotta get rid of some of that bad press surrounding Apple lately.

<wonders if they'll let VoIP on it>
 
WaRrK said:
So... does this make the iPod Touch the Newton replacement we've all been waiting for? :)

I guess the iPhone and touch will get feature parity now - if you can write apps for both it seems silly not having mail etc. on the touch too!
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Hopefully... although now there is an SDK... the sky is the limit, people can and will do whatever they want.
 
MacWorld 2008

announcement

16gb iphone

and i know we said until feb... but the iphone Developers Kit is available TODAY on apple.com

BOOM! (In Steve Jobs Voice)


im so happy to finally hear something official and cant wait to see what great things come to iphone! :)
 
Nice. It was bound to happen. Until then, I am stoked to think about the possibilities....
 
WRXHokie said:
Well done.... is this what they've been planning all along or have they found that there is no way to stop this from happening, so they might as well play along? Thats the question in my mind.
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Planned all along I say.

They had a hard enough job trying to get such a sophisticated piece of technology out the door for June. Trying to support third party apps would have made it even harder and inevitably lead to delay or serious problems. And serious problems would have damaged the reputation of the platform anyway.

Jobs clearly seems irked by some of the criticism, much of which from people with no comprehension of the engineering challenges and technical issues.
 
GodzPeepz said:
I sure glad that Steve is starting to realize that we need our 3rd party apps on our phone!
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Did you read the letter at all? It's pretty clear that this has been the plan all along, it's just taking them time.

What they DID realize is that people can't be patient if they don't know what's coming. Not saying this sooner was a mistke.

Steve SHOULD have said this back when they told developers to make web-apps. You know "we'll have an SDK in 2008, but to tide you over until then, you can make web-apps."

That would have made everyone a lot happier, I think, even though it's no different from what we got.
 
I don't know if I should say "wow" or "finally". Maybe both. Just a couple of hours ago there was no way I'd get an iPod touch, and now... Damn. I want one.

Let's hope the SDK indeed is useful and secure... :)
 
Marcjcd said:
Wouldnt make a difference if he said "definitely", we all know that when Jobs says February he really means the day before March 1st.
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You see this negative attitude really upsets me.

CLEARLY he means after 6pm on the last working day of the month.
 
hooch said:
I have said it many times, but I really need to buy appl stock now. This is going to make a lot of people think twice.
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We bought a bunch of Apple stock back 10 years ago when Apple bought NeXT (I had a NeXTstation and was in love with the OpenStep development environment!). Split-adjusted, it was about $4 a share back then.

My only regret was unloading some of it when it hit $90 thinking then that it had run up too much. :(
 
Small White Car said:
Did you read the letter at all? It's pretty clear that this has been the plan all along, it's just taking them time.

What they DID realize is that people can't be patient if they don't know what's coming. Not saying this sooner was a mistke.

Steve SHOULD have said this back when they told developers to make web-apps. You know "we'll have an SDK in 2008, but to tide you over until then, you can make web-apps."

That would have made everyone a lot happier, I think, even though it's no different from what we got.
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I agree with your sentiments above, but didn't Steve say at the iPhone announcement somewhere along the way that they weren't opposed to 3rd party apps or an SDK but that they wanted to do it right or something like that. I thought that was expressed by him somewhere along the way???

But again, double this sentiment... "What they DID realize is that people can't be patient if they don't know what's coming. Not saying this sooner was a mistake."
 
Marcjcd said:
Wouldnt make a difference if he said "definitely", we all know that when Jobs says February he really means the day before March 1st.
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You and me know this, but not quite everyone.

Witness the "Will Leopard be delayed again?", "Leopard isn't on time…" and "They'll never get it packaged and shipped for October" threads that were doing the rounds until a few days ago.
 
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