Posts Tagged ‘iPhone SDK’

On iPhone SDK, development, certificates, testing, and Infinite Loop…

Friday, March 7th, 2008

iPhone SDK

iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) was finally revealed yesterday at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino. As expected, this announcement lacks excitement in the way applications will be developed for iPhone. The process is very similar to development-testing-distribution cycle for Symbian applications. Potential developers need to apply to iPhone developers program (costs from $99/year), sign their applications with the code signing certificate, perform predefined testing procedures (not clarified yet), and distribute through Apple store (30% revenue goes to Apple, sounds like HandanGo :-( ).

The SDK is available as a free beta download and full release is scheduled for June 2008. It runs on Mac only (sorry Windows fans ;-) ).

For the moment, the development program participation is limited to US developers. Too bad, Apple prefers to stick with “Designed in California” only, rather than adding “Swiss quality” label.

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“Flash lite performs too slow to be useful” - Steve Jobs

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Although there are on-line speculations about actual specifications of iPhone’s CPU, during Apple shareholders meeting yesterday in Cupertino, Steve said that iPhone is very unlikely to support Flash lite. He added: “(Flash lite) is not capable of being used with the Web”.

This is quite important statement for the decision making when we discuss the strategy for mobile applications development. Although many sources state that the current sales of iPhone are in decline, it is expected that with new announcements in 2008 (SDK, 3G,etc.) Apple will play an important role in mobile technology trends.

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Not invited for iPhone SDK announcement? ;-(

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Like Leopard arrived later than announced, the iPhone SDK passed the initial deadline of the end of February. The recent announcement is it will be published on Thursday the 6th of March and Apple sent invitations to some developers. So it’s not on Tuesday but on Thursday, and I’m checking my mail box but nothing from Apple. :-(

Let’s wait for Thursday to see what we’ll really get. Hopefully, Apple will maintain openness and leave some space of freedom for developers to use phones features. Although this is the subject of many rumors and discussions lately, I’ll be patient and just wait few more days…

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