iPhone SDK —
Well, Steve Jobs and Apple delivered in terms of content: the 2008 WWDC keynote was significantly better than last year’s. That’s the content, by the way; not the presentation itself, which seems not to have delighted everyone e.g. see the coverage at Engadget. (not enough Steve Jobs, I guess). Herewith, my initial reactions…
New iPhone 3G [...]
The iPhone App Store launch is now imminent, which begs the question - how many third-party applications will be available for iPhone? It’s difficult to say. What we know is that there have been hundreds of thousands of downloads of the iPhone SDK; and that there have been 1700 proposals put into Kleiner-Perkins for VC [...]
Interesting news from Sun. Sun’s VP Java Marketing just told The Register that Sun will be making a version of Java for iPhone. It seems that they feel that the iPhone SDK offers enough freedom that they can build a JVM on top of it. Here’s the quote…
We’ve spent the last 24 hours furiously looking [...]
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 [...]
After looking at Silverlight 2, it seemed to me that Apple might be considering Silverlight for the iPhone. And just now, Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie, live on stage at Mix 08 in Las Vegas dropped a hint that suggested Microsoft may have already done the deal. He said something like - Expect to see Microsoft putting [...]
Tomorrow, Apple will release details of the iPhone SDK. This is really crunch time for iPhone. If Apple gets this right, it will be a key part of paving the way for explosive future growth in iPhone sales. If the company gets it wrong, it could signal a future sales slowdown.
What does Apple need to [...]