Apple Finally Ready to Release SDK

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A little behind schedule, Apple is ready to release its SDK (Software Developer Kit) for the iPhone.

 

Here are the details, from Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday it will reveal its software plans for its iPhone device on March 6, including tools for outside developers and features aimed at businesses.

"Please join us to learn about the iPhone software roadmap, including the iPhone SDK and some exciting new enterprise features," Apple said in an invitation sent to reporters.

(Reporting by Scott Hillis)

 

So the iPhone will finally be able to use a few gigs of its memory for on-board application as opposed to the entirely web-based shenanigans that are currently offered.  On-board applications make a lot of sense because they are so much faster.  Even though some of them access the web in order to perform searches or update information a lot of time is saved when as much as possible id done by or on the phone.  Take TwitterBerry, for example.  Even though you access the web to see friends' updates or to submit your own, you type in your text directly on the handset.  You don't have to wait for the page to load just to enter your text and then wait again to submit it.  Also, there are plenty of apps that don't require any web interaction at all.  There are applications that will let you scour your handset for information.  I think that the usefulness of an application like that would be nullified if you had to wait around for the internet everytime you tried to search your handset for something.  And let's not forget that the internet on the iPhone isn't all that fast.  It's decent, but when it's being relied upon so heavily any inadequacies will get exposed over and over again.

 

While I think it's great that Apple is opening up the iPhone I have to wonder why they waited.  If they were worried about third-party applications drawing people away from Apple software, why release it at all?  If I had to guess, I'd say that they wanted to get people to try the preloaded Apple offerings and decided to gurantee that they would by not allowing effective access to any alternatives. 

 

Who knows.  If enough applications become available and the enterprise solutions are truly "exciting" Andrew may have to take the iPhone out of mothballs.

 

I'm not holding my breath.


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