IS anyone else bothered by the fact Steve Jobs said that apple was trying its best to get the SDK to developers in Late february and how long do you think it will take for iPHone apps to be released?
Bothered, why? I know it sounds fanboyish of me, but the fact that they're releasing one at all is kind of amazing.
As for the second, my totally unvarnished, unsubstantiated, and unsupported opinion:
1. The SDK has already been released to certain major players to get a jumpstart on app development (please, please, please give me a native, syncable Quicken client).
2. The SDK will see "general" release on the 26th or the 29th of February I don't, however, think there will be a "go to the website and download it" level of openess to the release.
3. There will be maybe 2-3 apps available on release date, but they won't be much of anything special.
4. Beyond that, I expect at least 1-2 months before the next apps show up. We'll have a bumper crop of people developing phones, but a) Apple's certification process costs will act as an inhibitor to most smaller developers, and b) the time it takes for Apple to certify, digitally sign/encrypt, and put an app up on iTunes will bloat the average app's time-to-release.
5. If anyone thinks they'll see SSH, Summerboard, an IM client, or a Skype client as an Apple approved app, they need to put down the crack pipe.