Apple Really Delivers With iPhone SDK
Well, Apple’s iPhone software roadmap meeting is over. Did they deliver? In a word - YES! All the commercial and techincal details look great. By using the iPhone SDK, it will be possible to develop truly amazing, magical software applications for iPhone, and it will be easy to distribute these apps too. Importantly, along with all this, they have pretty much fixed the business e-mail/calendaring hygiene factor by integrating with Exchange Server. Perfect.
Not only does the SDK look fantastic from a techincal point of view, by the way, but the business opportunities are truly amazing. Apple has got together with top-tier venture capital group, KPCB, to put in place a substntial $100M seed fund. What does that mean? It means that a serious VC has the serious ambition to help entrepreneurs build billion dollar companies based around iPhone (that’s the scale of ambition of top-tier VCs investing in software companies).
This is a really smart move on Apple’s part. It means, if you have an idea for a billion dollar company based around mobile phone software, making iPhone a first-tier development platform is now a sensible move (even though there aren’t many iPhones yet in the market place). And if Kleiner-Perkins is backing iPhone software companies, you can be sure that other top-tier VCs will be too - so it’s a global opportunity, not only a US one.
It took a while for Apple to see the light when it comes to the potential of the iPhone platform and which direction to take it in; but they got there in the end. This is really game-changing stuff for the mobile phone industry…
Asam Bashir wrote:
Screen shots of the games look fantastic and Apple has delivered a way to really make desktop class applications, in fact it’s creating it’s own Touch-class application genre. Cocoa-Touch must have taken a lot of serious background development and taps into several years worth of research done by Apple, the ground work for a whole new eco-system of Touch based hardware. It’s game changing stuff for the mobile and former-PDA market!
Looks like the 3G iPhone running iPhone OS 2.0 will be the must have computing accessory in the summer, O2 plans where modified and look better, hopefully a full Bluetooth 2.0 implementation to allow wider hardware accessories.
Posted 06 Mar 2008 at 9:06 pm ¶
Asam Bashir wrote:
Oh yeah, BBC iPlayer on iPhone should push sales in the UK and be great for both companies.
Posted 06 Mar 2008 at 9:18 pm ¶
simon wrote:
Absolutely. The value proposition of iPhone has massively changed for the better after today. Apple has fixed all the strategic mistakes they made at the iPhone launch.
Before today, iPhone was pretty much a closed device (webapps with too-slow JavaScript notwithstanding) with no Enterprise-class e-mail/calendaring. That was massively limiting.
After today, iPhone is an almost totally open device, *with* Enterprise-class e-mail/calendaring. They sky is the limit now in terms of what can be done with iPhone.
As is always the case, the devil is in the detail. However, assuming the execution is right, iPhone should start to accelerate pretty soon (and it won’t do Mac sales any harm either, as developers start to get excited about developing for iPhone… which requires a Mac).
Posted 06 Mar 2008 at 9:39 pm ¶
Asam Bashir wrote:
Lot of GPS Navigation solutions coming from CeBIT,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6bC1MIhn44
Posted 06 Mar 2008 at 10:26 pm ¶