Comments on: iPhone Developer Reaction

By: Scott Ahten

Scott Ahten — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:26:55 +0000

As much as I’d like love to get my hands on an iPhone before the official release date, couldn’t Apple provide developers with an SDK and a iPhone emulator? Developers could get started right away and upload their apps to a real iPhone as part of the final QA process. Using an emulator would also speed up the development process, as you wouldn’t need to sync your app with a real iPhone each and every time you recompile.

I’d love to see some kind of Widget support, even if only signed Widgets could use Cocoa to make external API calls and connect to the network. While you can can do allot with

That being said, Apple is known for keeping new APIs private until they become reasonably stable. I’d be very (pleasantly) surprised if we see any kind of SDK before the next major iPhone release – if at all.

By: Chucky

Chucky — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:19:52 +0000

I think the odds of an SDK before version 1.0 are approximately 0%.

I’d guess the odds of ever getting an SDK are no better than 50/50. And if it does come, plan on waiting at least a year.

There are no 3rd party apps on the iPod. I’m not sure why anyone thinks the iPhone is going to be any different.

By: Nehemiah

Nehemiah — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:41:07 +0000

by removed i mean, different (like a cousin once removed)

By: Nehemiah

Nehemiah — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:39:40 +0000

I really do think that they will allow third party widget support, and even indi widget support. thats the most i could expect though. Thats also the least i expect: the widgets seem slightly removed, perhaps DashCode will have some special formatting for this.

By: Tom Harrington

Tom Harrington — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:05:59 +0000

It seems that the Intel transition offers a lesson here.

When Intel was officially announced, Apple made sure that developers could start working on prerelease hardware immediately, well in advance of Intel Macs being publicly available. They had to, if they wanted developers to be anything like up to speed when the Intel Macs first came out.

So where’s the iPhone developer kit, eh?

The iPhone appears to have been announced with a much shorter lead time than the Intel transition, and so far the developer support is squat. At best one might say that Apple doesn’t expect third-party developers to be participating when the iPhone debuts. If we’re lucky we might get something later on, but I’m thinking if we don’t have some kind of official developer support soon, we’re not likely to get it at all.

By: Jonathan Wight

Jonathan Wight — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:17:50 +0000

Bring out the sacrificial Dan!