Tune in tomorrow here and on CrunchGear for live coverage of Apple’s iPhone SDK event at Apple HQ in Cupertino. The event starts at 10 am PST.
What do we expect will be said? Well, hopefully we’ll get an idea when the SDK will be available, since it really looks like Apple will miss their promised February launch.
Apple is also saying they’ll announce “some exciting new enterprise features.” I hope that means business users will have Exchange Server like features going forward.
Lots more rumors over at iLounge. In a few short hours we’ll know what’s up.
I would rather wait for the SDK to be finished then some half baked SDK with constant revisions . cough… android… cough
We’ll see if Google beats them to the punch
You’re all going to be stunned when Steve comes out and says “This SDK thing? It’s called Silverlight”.
For Google to beat them they should sell a few phone first :->
I’ll definitely be tuning in for this one. Ive been waiting for this moment for a very very long time!
By the way, we just got $800,000 series A funding.
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Allen Vartazarian
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“it really looks like Apple will miss their promised February launch.”
Uhh… it looks like? Michael, it is March already! Is that Steve Jobs’ reality distortion field at work again??
Now if only they’d let us use it and put the end results, whatever they may be, on our iPhones…
the hell of it is, the phone is really pretty great anyway. Flaws, yeah, sure, but for 1st gen it’s amazing. What’s really the bigger deal with the phone, 3G or SDK?
Longterm new apps might be cool, but since I bought the phone to:
- have a phone
- have a nice audio/video ipod
- have a phone with decent web & e-mail access…
…the way bigger deal to me is a faster data network. The SDK is a nice to have, but I think Apple actually was right with the original thinking that “the web is the ultimate app, why does an SDK matter”. I don’t think it really does in terms of market for the phone.
I know the SDK will make Fred Wilson, Scoble, etc happy,and shut them up, but as soon as someone figures out how to hack the SDK to allow for Skype usage instead of AT&T, there will be another shit storm. Short of the skype style hacking there’s not much you could do with the SDK that will actually SELL more product.
Knocking $200 off the hardware and having 3G seem much more important over the next 1-5 years than the SDK. But, I’m definitely OK with the Skype app and dumping AT&T
Did anybody mentioned already the beauty of the rendered map above?
I noticed the map! Say what you will, but you gotta hand it to Apple’s design - even on a simple press release, the smallest detail is thought out and pleasing.
mirPod Podcast Player is a webapp that lets you to stream and listen to all your favorite audio and video podcasts without having to sync with iTunes. This will also free up space on your iPhone so you have room for more music and video.
1- This webapp offers the top podcasts list.
2- A search button allows to find podcasts by tags or name.
3- You can make your own favorite list on mirPod and enjoy it on your iPhone.
http://mirpod.com/iphone.php
@Robert: games, games, games!
I also use a native app that give me access to ALL of my music (>100 GB), and it also lets me play from friends. I also have two apps for internet radio (although I use them less.) Since I used to be able to eat. breathe and sleep before apple invented the iphone I could live without these too, but they are pretty entertaining additions for the people with phones and Touches who happen to like music.
There is great stuff out there that has barely been covered because of FUD about “scary” jailbreak (if you sneeze your phone might brick) or lost in the flood of assinine apps that do little besides crash.