The Other Shoe

From Apple - Hot News, his Stevieness says...

Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. ... It will take until February to release an SDK because we’re trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once—provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc. This is no easy task. ... P.S.: The SDK will also allow developers to create applications for iPod touch.

(Emphasis mine.) Hallelujah!

Comments

[Pinko]

Finally, but something else strikes me in this message, which oddly enough was a similar message, when Steve Jobs announced that the iPhone development would be web based.

Apple did not have a clear roadmap for development of applications on the iPhone, and never intended to have one. This is a bending of wills created by the forces of the market.

Maybe, just maybe we can now bend the will just one more click, which is is move off the "single" provider model.

[Tom Reeves]

I'm writing on a stale thread for the 3rd time. The incongruity between the distress of certain critics (such as Leo) and the customer satisfaction surveys (see the ChangeWave survey sited by MacDailyNews this AM) simply shows that the distress isn't representative of the way the vast, vast, vast, vast majority experience the iPhone. I'm like the majority, but simply cannot remain quiet about my own contentment.

[Daniel]

It's too reactionary of Jobs -- it comes off more obvious that it's an afterthought due to the blow-back.

If it was their intent to provide an SDK, they would have responded with this information either prior to the upgrade issue -- or at the very least, immediately after so as to enlighten our bricked friends.

[StevieD]

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