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

Can't wait to see developers currently making nice 3rd party apps for the iPhone switching over to an official SDK and seeing what they come up with.

I also think that the way this whole situation played out (the iPhone originally being released WITHOUT an SDK) worked out in some ways for the best. Here you had developers being really creative, not being payed for their work, finding their way around the iPhone blindly and still coming out with some real nice work. Just imagine what these guys can do WITH an SDK from Apple.

Kudos to Apple AND the early 3rd party developers.
The cat can now place "nice" with the mouse.

These are going to be some interesting times . . . . .
 
WTH??

I paid $600 for a phone with limited apps on it.Then the price goes down and all I get is some crappy Apple Corporate greedy certificate that I used to pay for that crappy DRM-free,cheeper music.Fine.

Now!! Apple's going to have 3rd. party apps??

Are you serious??

What the hecks with that huh ?


I'm gonna make a un-apping program to hack my iPhone so I dont have all that shiny real estate corrupted with "usefull" apps.



:cool:
 
pacohaas said:
Phones plural as in "yes many people have our iPhone", or as in more phone models will be coming soon???
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Best ever speculation based on one letter. Maybe you forgot the smiley?

Apple will certainly make more phones, guessing that a new one is about to be released, based on this quote? wow.
 
If you can program it yourself I would buy one for the fun of it.

I wonder how hard it is to get an app signing key? Or if there is a preference setting that lets you load unsigned apps?
 
Just thought of something....

Now there is nothing stopping TomTom or whomever, from building a car navigation system!!

And it will be cheap seeing as how the "screen" and ram / storage space is in the phone.

Hello. iPhone. Take me to 2390 Washington Blvd.

:D
 
Southernboy said:
Nice move Apple.

I wonder if apps will be sold/installed by iTunes?
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No doubt- and in reply to the Word & Excel comment earlier, I'd bet Pages & Numbers 1st. :D

IMO- the apps should be priced around $4.99, with some 3rd party stuff being distributed through iTunes as freeware/donationware. Kind of like application podcasts! :apple:
 
seedster2 said:
4 months is a long time in the cell market.

LG, HTC and Samsung are already releasing competitors.

Nokia's touch offering showed a demo with some really cool functionalities. It's entirely possible
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understood, but it doesnt take a genius to figure that by the time the third party apps really get rolling we will be seeing the second generation of the iPhone. And also call me crazy but I just dont see the knock offs coming close to being the pop culture icon the iPhone has become. People still ask me to see my phone and the thing has been out for 4 months. It seems to me this is a step to establish the software on the iPhone and iPod touch as an actual OS and not just an interface. The late release makes it appear as if Apple intended to take this step with the next generation but succumbed to the pressure in a way. This announcement was just meant to shut people up.
 
I am sure that you will have to get a certificate and sign the app. I am also guessing that itunes will be used to install them, and they will be distributed via the itunes store.

One unintended consequence of this announcement: as someone who wants to write native apps but who has been writing webapps in the meantime, I have sort of lost interest in writing any more webapps for now.

Would be nice if Apple would announce that the upcoming SDK will include a way to package javascript apps and store them on the phone, thereby encouraging us web developers to keep plugging away until the SDK shows up.
 
Adokimus said:
Yes, yes. But, do you think that this would be getting pushed through so quickly if it were not for the tireless actions of the hacking community and the constant complaining of would-be iPhone owners? If no one had been complaining or trying to hack the iPhone, we wouldn't be getting this news today.
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I would say your last sentence is accurate.
 
wheezy said:
Will some of the nay-sayers finally shut up now? Please!!
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Uh - NO. And why only some and not all? Jobs has his back to the wall. If he doesn't and hasn't it's his own fault. And this after breaking people's devices - as many pundits say further it was done deliberately.

You may gain a few dorky apps for your precious iPhone but the basic tenet of Steve Jobs "to own and have a 100% grasp on the whole banana" has not changed and never will change. Steve Jobs is the antithesis of open source and open systems. He hates those things. Period. So you get what he gives you - or in this case after Nokia surged through the gaffe what he is forced to give you. Again, this might be perception only as regards the iPhone but Jobs had many chances. He could have nixed the idea of making bricks out of expensive devices. He could have spoken sooner. Etc. His reaction now is embarrassingly too close to the recent Nokia campaign. And finally, again, this is how Steve Jobs is. He wants the whole banana. If you like his banana, then go for it but don't expect people who are more wide awake and free thinking than you to "shut up now". Nothing's essentially changed.
wheezy said:
I can't imagine how amazing a device the iPhone is going to be in 1-2 years. I'm excited!
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I gotta leave this part in because it's so cool. :D
 
Oh my God! Christmas is here.

I can't think of two stories I would have rather seen on the front page of this site than 1) a letter straight from Steve Jobs announcing a 3rd party sdk and 2) an expansion and discount of DRM songs on iTunes.

Time for me to get back into AAPL.
 
Peace said:
Steve is right on with this delay until February.There are virusus and malware on some cellphones.

Now I wish only that people would stop hacking their phones so engineers can breath a little better.The happier a coder is the better the code. ;)
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Not only that but those that already have, are using older software that have vulnerabilites that expose them to malware. These are the same vulnarabilites that were used to hack the phone to beging with.

Of special concern are those that exist in the Safari browser. Visiting a malicious page or a good site that has been compromized can result in malicious code injection into the phone and such code can then run with zero or no user consent.

People need to maintain their phones in pristine state and apply the patches as they come along.

I bet some will take exception with the above, so be it.
 
thanks to all the iPhone Hacktards

Thanks to all the whiners who spoiled a great MacWorld keynote announcement. Damn I live for those surprises. But no, all the iPhone Hacktards had to ruin it for the rest of us :mad:
 
Rom Rim said:
Uh - NO. And why only some and not all? Jobs has his back to the wall. If he doesn't and hasn't it's his own fault. And this after breaking people's devices - as many pundits say further it was done deliberately.

You may gain a few dorky apps for your precious iPhone but the basic tenet of Steve Jobs "to own and have a 100% grasp on the whole banana" has not changed and never will change. Steve Jobs is the antithesis of open source and open systems. He hates those things. Period. So you get what he gives you - or in this case after Nokia surged through the gaffe what he is forced to give you. Again, this might be perception only as regards the iPhone but Jobs had many chances. He could have nixed the idea of making bricks out of expensive devices. He could have spoken sooner. Etc. His reaction now is embarrassingly too close to the recent Nokia campaign. And finally, again, this is how Steve Jobs is. He wants the whole banana. If you like his banana, then go for it but don't expect people who are more wide awake and free thinking than you to "shut up now". Nothing's essentially changed.

I gotta leave this part in because it's so cool. :D
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Well said Ron Rim
 
cmaier said:
I am sure that you will have to get a certificate and sign the app. I am also guessing that itunes will be used to install them, and they will be distributed via the itunes store.

One unintended consequence of this announcement: as someone who wants to write native apps but who has been writing webapps in the meantime, I have sort of lost interest in writing any more webapps for now.

Would be nice if Apple would announce that the upcoming SDK will include a way to package javascript apps and store them on the phone, thereby encouraging us web developers to keep plugging away until the SDK shows up.
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I just have this feeling that Apple is only going to allow 3rd party apps by somehow storing the web app into the phone... instead of having a true 3rd party (native) application. This way it's not fully integrated into the actual phone but resides as an "offline" web app. just a gut feeling =)
 
Whaa..

Zeromus said:
Sweet! Hope they don't block current jailbreaks/apps in the next firmware updates, otherwise Feb will be a long time to wait.
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What part of the "secure" thing don't you get? And why would you put hackware on your phone now instead of waiting for fully functioning apps?
 
Passante said:
Thanks to all the whines who spoiled a great MacWorld keynote announcement. Damn I live for those surprises. But no all the iPhone Hacktards had to ruin it for the rest of us :mad:
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These "hacktards" are the ones that really PUSH technology forward. Without these "hacktards" we wouldn't have killer apps such as "VisiCalc." Heck, Woz himself is a "hacktard." So get off your high horse and OPEN YOUR MIND.

w00master
 
Passante said:
Thanks to all the whiners who spoiled a great MacWorld keynote announcement. Damn I live for those surprises. But no, all the iPhone Hacktards had to ruin it for the rest of us :mad:
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I think Steve will still have some tricks up his sleeve to unveil at MacWorld ;)

:D Macbook Nano? :D
 
Thanks Steve for the news, but thank him even more for saving thousands of posts on forums about how lame the iphone is because it is not opened to third party development.

Say goodbye to unlocking sims and jailbreaking programs.

I hope you will be happy with your 1.1? firmware.
 
I am very pleased.

It was exciting to see all the third-party development going on with the iPhone prior to Firmware 1.1.1. It will be very nice to see that happen again starting next year, with the added bonus it will be done with an official SDK as a foundation which benefits both those who write the code and those who execute it.
 
Third-party apps on the iPod touch! So the 400e mediaplayer I bought few days ago will transform in to a miniature computer. That is very, very cool.
 
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