Third Party Applications on the iPhone

I have to hand it to Mr. Jobs. He knows what his users want …

Third Party Applications on the iPhone

Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers? hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers…..read more at the Apple Web Site

Lets face it. It’s either people are going to be hacking their way in to create third party apps (like what’s already happened) or Apple is going to make it easy on developers and hand them an SDK wrapped up in a pretty box with a huge bow. Steve is not only protecting his iPhone, but he’s making it better, because the moto is “think different” right? Why not …

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  • Syntax

    So do yo think that Apple is doing it because of the people breaking in, or do you think they planned it all along? It kind of reminds me of Bookcamp, once people had an easy just click this app/script for booting windows on an Intel Mac, Apple said “Oh by the way we have boot camp”. weird about the timing hu?

    I can’t decide iPod Touch or Nokia N810 (in Nov) I really want the be listen to Radio streams but I want the Easy Apple interface and syncing with my other Apple stuff. But if I can use the N810 with my Slingbox (with an Apple TV) OH so many toys so VERY little money :(

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