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By: harrywolf

harrywolf — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:59:08 +0000

Almost feel sorry for RIM – their hold on the market they have is tenuous, to say the least, Maybe they can come up with something new, but unless they add new compelling features, they look more and more like a one-trick pony.

Its not just Apple who will try to take their market.

As for the iPhone being rolled out everywhere, I don’t see Apple needing to be in a hurry.
Like the iPod, there is simply NO viable competition on the horizon, or even over the horizon.

Still, it would be good if Apple would talk to Rogers in Canada soon…..I am spending $80 per month for a data plan alone, plus my 1000 minutes plan – very expensive!

Its worth it though – the iPhone is a great business tool, IMHO.

By: John Muir

John Muir — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:24:22 +0000

@hrissan

Bearing in mind we had no tools whatsoever until right now – excluding web apps which have their place – this is pretty damn good. Looking at the documentation it’s clear just how much work went into this SDK. Apple very likely had this cooking back when Leopard was delayed! Like Scott Forstall said when he mentioned Core Animation: they developed that with the iPhone in mind first, and Leopard second.

There will be extra stuff to which most of us are not party yet. Namely the sort of background processes that AIM must use along with Apple’s own apps.

I don’t think that means he was bending the truth when he said they’re releasing the same tools Apple use in-house though. Xcode, Interface Builder and all are there. And *almost* all the plumbing behind them too … at least so much as makes a pretty damn appetising beta SDK.

Perhaps we will have the secret formula opened up as public API’s sometime in the future. Perhaps the whole iPhone OS is undergoing rapid development within Apple anyway. I would not be surprised.

So long as they don’t let Java get on the iPhone we can all breath a sigh of relief! Especially as users.

By: hrissan

hrissan — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:26:12 +0000

Apple is definetely not going to allow background 3d party tasks (at least for a while!). The documentation is adamant about this – when 3d part application loses focus because the user presses “Home” or call comes in, the 3d party application quits immediately. There are other restrictions as well. I’m a bit sad about this because our company sells calls recording software for Windows Mobile and Nokia and now it seems iPhone is useless for this tasks.

We are disappointed, because we were going to work hard to make this scenario possible: you install Voice Recorder, enable “calls autorecording” in settings and voila! All your calls are automatically recorded and later synced to iTunes (with meta-info :)) as soon as you plug iPhone into your computer in the way pictures made by iPhone camera sync to iPhoto. This is not even remotely possible with this release of SDK.

So SDK IS very restrictive right now. I cheered when I heard Apple guy on March 6 event said “We are giving developers the same set of tools we use ourselves”. OK, that was just a plain lie/misinformation. :(

I guess the more powerfull SDK features are available to selected developers right now. How you guess AOL is going to implement its service client? Both Apple and AOL know that if it is going to be disconnected when you press home button, it will be useless, so I know they have solution. They’ll give AOL (and possibly other “important” developers) SDK with broader features to build code and more priviledged certificates to sign code so iPhone can actually know this application should have access to more features. :)

May be gradually these features will be available to “ordinary” iPhone developers as well, in a year or two.