Since the iPhone was announced people have been criticizing all the different features or lack of and defended contenders like the Blackberry or N95. Apple has followed every single request and obeyed in promptly fixing everything:
-Price too high: cut after just 3 months
-No 3rd party applications: SDK announced shortly after, released in March and apps [...]
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iPhone: the phone of the people
Unlike Facebook’s iPhone site, here is one you won’t see in a commercial soon
Playboy.com’s iPhone website just launched. Judging by the screenshot it’s more of a guy’s portal than a pr0n site.
Missing: Sports scores(hopefully Colombian Soccer) and games!
(Via TechCrunch.)
May-June Developer Conferences
Developers conference seem to pop up everywhere during the next couple of months. A multi-tech developer might want to go the the following hot conferences:
Start off on May 28-29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West for Google’s Web Forward:
Two days full of in-depth breakout sessions on the latest web technologies, Fireside Chats with Google engineering teams, [...]
Apple, Please let me in!
Just got this:
Dear Registered iPhone Developer,
Thank you for expressing interest in the iPhone Developer Program. We have received your enrollment request. As this time, the iPhone Developer Program is available to a limited number of developers and we plan to expand during the beta period. We will contact you again regarding your [...]
Horray, No delay: Apple announces WWDC 08 dates
Apple is on track for WWDC 08 in June. No delays this year as had been perviously rumored.
(Via TUAW.)
iPhone’s SDK biggest drawback: no multitasking
There two things that have bugged me from the iPhone SDK announcement:
-No InterfaceBuilder for the iPhone yet (you can still code it, so it’s just an inconvenience)
-Third party apps can’t run in the background.
I love the Mac, because all apps are created equal. But the iPhone(at least for now) will treat third party apps like [...]
iPhone SDK: Finally!
I can’t believe that Apple actually managed to released all the features people had been complaining about. IT is a mayor announcement for the platform.
As always John Gruber has a good piece on it.
I am still downloading the iphone SDK(2.5 GB). As soon as I have time to look at it, I will [...]
iPhone Open Application Development Book from O’Reilly (not from the SDK)
An O’Reilly book being released on March 13, 2008:
Author Jonathan Zdziarski, the developer of the first fully functional application using the open iPhone toolkit, now explains in clear language how to create applications using Objective-C and the iPhone API, which in some ways resembles Apple’s desktop API and in some ways strikes new ground. iPhone [...]
“Publications” and their “sources”
I don’t need any sources to predict just that, isn’t it obvious:
It’s possible that Apple will introduce a version of the iPhone software developers kit (SDK) next week which is far from complete, according to claims by SetteB.IT.
Citing their own sources, the overseas publication said it believes only a beta version of the SDK [...]
iPhone: Apple trojan 2.0
Ars Technica is reporting that on March 6th Apple will hold a press conference where they will announce the “iPhone Software Roadmap”:
learn about the iPhone software roadmap, including the iPhone SDK and some exciting new enterprise features.
Wow, look at Apple sounding so enterprisy with words like “Roadmap”. So it’s pretty much set(as I said before) [...]