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by Bryan Gardiner, Wired
The software industry gave a hearty cheer to Apple's announcement it will provide a software-development kit for the iPhone next spring.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Ah... the elusive iPhone SDK. It's finally here... Well, okay, it's not exactly here yet. But Steve Jobs promised there will be one in February of next year. Based on what Apple has been delivering lately, this will be, I guess, the very last day of February, eh? It is a Friday, so all the hackers can spent their entire weekend to port their applications onto the phone.
But then, we still don't know what is inside the SDK, such as the scope of the APIs, and the method by which third-party applications can get onto the iPhones. Steve Jobs definitely hinted at a model where applications need to be approved by Apple in order to get onto the phones. This may mean that you'll get your outliners and minesweepers, but you may not get your instant messengers and internet phones.
Furthermore, we don't know what is the scope of API that will be accessible by third-party programmers. Can third-party applications make phone calls, send SMS messages, or sense the tilt and turns of the phone? (As others have noted, a mini-Wii.)
So, if you are planning to buy an iPhone or an iPod touch, and that a rich and wonderful set of third-party applications is a must-have feature, well, we are not there yet. Buy the gadgets because you like its existing features, not because of its potential, because we don't know where's the ceiling yet come Feb 08.
by Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac
Think handheld portable Wii.
by Bryan Gardiner, Wired
While Steve Jobs says the three plus months developers will have to wait for an iPhone SDK are essential for ensuring security on the phone, other industry insiders are starting to wonder if the delay might be attributable to something else. Something, say, more tablety with a touch screen interface?
by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
Leopard is a legitimately big deal. It's underhyped compared to iPhone, and yet unlike iPhone, Leopard is a genuine triumph of customer-focused engineering. It's a pleasure and a relief to see that Apple remembers how to deliver open, affordable, standards-based products.
by Leander Kahney, Wired
The wireless media center might have been a smash, if only the company had learned from its own succes swith the iPod and designed Apple TV to play video formats popular on BitTorrent and other file-sharing networks.
by Ivan Askwith, Slate
Networks take note: Apple's not going away.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
The unlocked iPhone will carry a premium price, although the companies did not say how much more it would be.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
The software features motion and audio-sensitivity, and can snap pictures then send them to a .Mac account, FTP, by e-mail and more.
by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
By Gartner's reckoning — and it should be noted that these are estimates — Apple has finally surpassed both Gateway (now part of Acer) and Toshiba to make it into third place in the U.S. PC market behind leaders Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
by Nicholas Carr, Rough Type
Why do you think Google is spending billions of dollars a year building data centers? Why do you think Microsoft is madly tryng to catch up, spending even more billions than Google? It's not just search and ads. What's at stake is control over personal computing itself - and Microsoft knows that, confronting the combined front-end and back-end skills of Google and Apple, it's at a big disadvantage. It will likely lose this war.
by Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS
Jobs' letter today was a bit in the tone of, "Hey, you kids, getoff my lawn! We still have to get rid of the gophers, resod the grass, and finish the main house before we let you on it in a few months, you little...." Jobs' statement emphasized the high level of risk for viruses and malware to spread among phones, and the widespread hallucination engaged in (or promoted by) the cell phone industry that such problems don't already exist. Fair enough, although what he's really saing is, "We've been too busy to work on the iPhone and Leopard at the same time; now we can focus on the iPhone again."
by Sitening Blog
There are several little known new features that are actually quite cool.
by Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica
Things do seem to be changing in the Apple Store.
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