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Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday said the company would release an SDK for the iPhone and iPod touch in February. more

[Craig_A]

This should come as a surprise to nobody.
Patience is still a virtue, guys. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[tomtom]

Stock is doing well - more to come on this one.

[jpmuk]

Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.
Apart from 3G there will now be almost nothing to criticise the iPhone for now.
The 3G will come soon and the virtual keyboard has many more advantages than disadvantages. I can hear the sound of weeping coming from Redmond...

[cnorth3]

I'm worried: will the SDK meet Green Peace's environmental standards? Will it be DRM-free? Will there be a rebate for pre-SDK iPhones? Will the SDK work on my hacked iPhone (and why can't I get it to work on a CDMA network)? Huh? Huh? Huh?????????
Just kidding. See, everything turned out just as it should. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[veggiedude]

After someone peaked at the code for the 1.1.1 update, it was speculated that it laid the foundation for this to happen. Glad to see they were right.
I do prefer the web apps, why use up valuable space on my iPod when I can simply access them via the net? Of course, one is not always within wifi range, so the odd one or two native apps would be nice to have.
Speaking of web apps, I am unhappy that Apple has snubbed meebo.com by not including them on their web apps page. Meebo is the most remarkable thing available for the iPhone/iPod Touch.
In addition, glad to see usatoday.com supporting iPhone with a special web page designed for it - lets hope other sites will follow suit (hint hint).

[lkrupp]

One thing everybody better damn well understand...this was NOT in response to the whining tards screaming about their precious rights to do what they will with their device. This was planned from the very beginning and was waiting to be announced after the Leopard was turned loose. Anybody who thinks Jobs did this to placate the whining crybabies needs to wake up from their fantasy.

[RobK]

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Apart from 3G there will now be almost nothing to criticise the iPhone for now.

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You must be new here.

[tony_d]

Here comes the VOIP apps.

[OM_user]

Nice. I wonder what all the whiners and moaners will complain about now? Honestly, some people have zero patience with stuff.

[scotts13]

No surprise at all. Kind of puts egg on the faces of the people who messed up their phones by jumping the gun, doesn't it? I'll restrain my schadenfreude as best I can...

[griffman]

No egg on my face. I got what I wanted, which was a free and open development platform -- at least, that's what it looks like it will be. And in the interim, I have an iPhone full of useful third party apps that I intend to keep using until sometime in February or March.
As for the public pressure bit -- it may not have had any impact on the development of a full SDK. It may very well have had an impact on Apple's announcing it four months before it's generally available. Really, think about it: if there hadn't been an outcry for third party apps on the iPhone, do you think Apple would have felt any need to announce their plans in October? From where I sit, the answer is "no," and we would have heard about this in January at Expo. But because there was an outcry, Apple felt it best to make an early announcement.
But regardless of the rationale, I really don't care who was right, who was wrong, who forced what, who didn't force what, or what Apple may or may not have planned from day one. I'm just happy that it seems they're going to deliver something that will really make the iPhone a killer mobile platform, and not just a pretty almost-but-not-quite smart phone.
Maybe someone can write a cut-n-paste app for it /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
-rob.

[Chris Breen]

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Kind of puts egg on the faces of the people who messed up their phones by jumping the gun, doesn't it?

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While I understand the satisfaction that gloating can bring, I'm going to smear aside this alleged egg and say this:
I've been using a chat client on my phone for a month. I will continue to use that chat client through February. If Apple forbids third-party chat clients because it has a deal with AT&T to direct customers to SMS rather than chat, I will continue to have a chat client on my phone.
To me, it sounds like my iPhone has been a more productive tool for 5 months longer than others. I understand that some may not wish to install unapproved third-party applications on their phone, but to characterize those apps we currently have as somehow a waste of time or an embarrassment seems the tiniest bit short sighted.

[g3jedi]

If you haven't read the letter for yourself you should also know that there is a P.S. at the bottom. The SDK is also for the iPod Touch! The iPod just became a pocket computer.