Comments on: Steve Jobs Announces iPhone SDK

By: simon

simon — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:44:09 +0000

Jobs has already suggested that there will, at the very least, be some kind of digital signing needed for third-party iPhone apps. So, it doesn’t look like it will be uncontrolled.

I’m going to be really interested to see if Apple has done a good job with this. There’s lots of ways they could screw this up…

By: John C. Welch

John C. Welch — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:07:01 +0000

Actually, I was agreeing with Steve’s position that *unlimited* and by inference *uncontrolled* third-party apps on a *phone* is a bad idea, and I still think it is. I highly doubt the iPod SDK will allow for the same level of development as you get with Mac OS X on a *general purpose* computer.

By: Asam Bashir

Asam Bashir — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:16:28 +0000

Some of us though did say that when Jobs had a proper plan for an SDK and if the market was right then he would release - Apple developers have obviously been working on Leopard release (Offical 26th Oct Launch) and so maybe now they’re looking into the iPhone/iTouch as an open developer platform before they set priorites for Mac OS X 10.6.

There have been more rumors about other touch devices, possibly the Newton evolved - it would make sence for say a MacBook with no keyboard at all but a touch screen instead. When you want a keyboard can always add a bluetooth one, or maybe even have some nice design where the keyboard can be removed by some clever mechanism.