iPhone SDK and iPhone Roadmap

Posted Mar 10th 2008 5:19PM by Lee Givens
Filed under: News, iPhone

March 6, 2008 will go down in Apple history as a seminal day for the iPhone platform and Mac users. I've been around the Mac platform for decades and I haven't seen this much excitement since the Newton or when Apple was testing Rhapsody, the code name for the upcoming Mac OS X (back in the late 1990's).



Why is this a big deal? As most of you know, software is the life-blood of any hardware platform. Take HD-DVD for an example. After the major studios said they were not going to release movies in HD-DVD format, Sony's Blu-Ray took over. Software is the arguably equally important to the cool hardware it runs on.

Starting March 6th, anyone can sign up for Apple's Developer program and get a beta copy of the iPhone SDK. Free. In order to sell your apps on the iTunes and iPhone AppStore, you'll need to come up with $99, but that's a lot better than most developer programs I've seen over the years.

Stop by the Apple iPhone SDK site or watch the March 6th announcement on iTunes Podcasts (search for SDK) or on Apple's web site. Just in case you're wondering, AOL's turn on stage to demo AIM for iPhone comes in around 53 minutes, 10 seconds.

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Lee Givens
AOL Mac Product Lead

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