No iPhone SDK Means No iPhone Killer Apps

iPhoneLover/Hater writes "Gizmodo is running an article analyzing the potential failure of the iPhone as a truly revolutionary platform. The reason: no SDK to harness the true power of Mac OS X and the frameworks contained in Apple's smart cell. From the article: 'According to Apple, "no software developer kit is required for the iPhone." However, the truth is that the lack of an SDK means that there won't be a killer application for the iPhone. It also means the iPhone's potential as an amazing computing and communication platform will never be realized. And because of this and no matter how Apple tries to sell it, the iPhone won't make a revolution happen.'"

Comments

Re:Don't be an idiot

[Snaller]

" No one was talking about a revolution in the phone industry having anything to do with anything that you just typed"

HE was talking about that - you didn't understand it. I explained it to you. And as expected it was a low IQ childish rant.

Pity Slashdot doesn't have an outright ignore function - but *plonk*

Re:Don't be an idiot

[untaken_name]

What YOU don't seem to understand is that HE WAS talking about it while trying to relate it to what EVERYONE ELSE but YOU was talking about. HE was doing this while implying that the definition of revolution DID NOT APPLY to anything other than ARMED CONFLICT. That is not correct. That is why I corrected him. Not because I even disagree with the point he was attempting to make. But because he committed an error while trying to make it.

Which Safari has already...

[SuperKendall]

Password manager.

Safari has that today? Why shouldn't it have that on the phone? In fact, I fully expect it to also carry over my passwords from OS X where they are held already in Keychain (and probably something similar for Safari on Windows).

Unless you were saying more generally, a password manager app. I agree those are handy (it's one of the few things I bought and used when I ahd a Palm) and it's also something trivial to have as a web applcation. With any luck we actually have an interface to Keychain, and then it already comes with a great one and you don't need to build one yourself.

I'm sure others will have different killer apps, and that's part of the point here.

But something an INDIVIDUAL wants cannot by defintion be a "Killer App", which is an application that drives people to a device or other thing in droves. It's the "Killer" use of the product that makes everyone want one. So while for me a dive compression recording application was very handy indeed, it really would never be a killer app since diving is not prevelent in the population at large.