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Steve Jobs Announces iPhone SDK
An anonymous reader writes "It finally happened. Steve Jobs announced an iPhone SDK today. The plan is to release it in February, and the suggestion is that apps will need to be digitally signed (not unlike digital signing in Leopard). Here's hoping that developing for the iPhone/Touch will be cheap (or free) enough to allow the folks who have been writing apps to continue doing so. Says Jobs: 'It will take until February to release an SDK because we're trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once--provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc. This is no easy task.'"
I've finally discovered the truth: Steve Jobs is Bill Clinton in disguise. This isn't meant as a political comment, but a study in management styles. Clinton could backpedal with the best of them because he knew when he'd taken an unpopular course, that it was important to back down gracefully.
Hackers opened the iPhone, Apple bricked it for the iChumps, now Steve's seeing the groundswell and responding. That's both good and bad, because while we get a better product people without clarity of direction aren't great for the industry.
Now he gets to face Vista-level security questions, made complicated by the invisible "clueless" tag in the middle of "consumer hardware."
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And behold, they gave us ajax and webapps.
Extreme Programming - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Developers
Do you get tired of making excuses for Apple all the time? I mean so you honestly would give Microsoft or Red Hat the same respect you grant Apple?
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Maybe it is just what software (not hardware) companies do, but shouldn't Apple have been working on the SDK as they worked up to the release of the iPhone. That way they could have a nice list all of the applications and developers who were behind their product?.
/.ers and teenagers buy them, but it will never thrive like Blackberry has.
Oh wait, that is what Microsoft, Palm and Blackberry have done with their products, based on Windows Mobile, Palm OS or Java. That is why if you use any of those phones you have a variety of useful apps by countless companies.
Steve Jobs is a control freak, he should have been smart enough to recognize that an SDK would have helped adoption. Furthermore it could have helped to lead companies that are presently Windows or Java development shops step into OS X application development.
Jobs has made a ton of mistakes in his career. Worse he repeats mistakes and does not learn. Not having and SDK for a PDA/phone is similar to not having expansion slots on the Mac. He is more interested in telling people how to use his products rather then make products that allow people to use them in a variety of ways.
Oddly, it is Microsoft who is better at working with 3rd hardware and software companies than Apple. iPhone may survive because
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Anti-Apple fanboys? A little paranoid here aren't we?
Try a little excercise in basic math and reading comprehension. Read any story on apple.slashdot.org and count the number of actual Kool-Aid drinking Apple fanboys, and then compare that to the number of people who bitch about all these supposed fanboys. You know, the people that jump into any conversation where people are bitching about something Apple has done that they don't like, with the line "now if this were Microsoft, you'd all be up in arms..." Completely ignoring the fact that the people are already bitching about Apple and calling Jobs an asshole.