iPhone Application Key Leaked

HighWizard writes with word from Engadget that the iPhone SDK Key has been leaked early. "We're not exactly sure how this all went down, but we trust Erica Sadun over at TUAW when she says that it appears that the iPhone's SDK key — which will probably be required by all 'official' third-party apps — has been leaked. Two different sites currently have the key posted, but it's all just for show until next month, when the SDK hits for real — and the code is undoubtedly changed."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Re:Bummer :-(

[SpeedyDX]

Regardless, it's fruitless for Apple to try & stop free third party apps. Yeah, the core of the problem is locking-in the SDK in the first place. They should adopt a less rotten attitude and just open it up for any developer to contribute free apps to the platform.

OK, I'm done. Ready to take the karma beating.

Meh

[MrCopilot]

I wish I cared, I tried extra hard but still nothing.

If I want a phone I can modify I should buy a phone that allows it.

Is the iPhone sleek and sexy? Of course, but so are a host of supermodels that I would not want to get into a 2 hour conversation with let alone a 2 yr relationship.

I feel the same way about the iPhone, I'd like to play with one for a little while, but thats about it.

Slashdot - rumours for nerds

[enoz]

We're not exactly sure how this all went down, but we trust Erica Sadun over at TUAW when she says that it appears that the iPhone's SDK key -- which will probably be required by all 'official' third-party apps -- has been leaked. Next month, when the SDK comes out, apparently this key may or may not work. Fantastic!

Here's another SDK key that was apparently discovered on a blog so is probably true:
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"It's true, a blog confirms it!"

Re:why all the effort?

[lymond01]

the iphone is a locked down piece of crap.

If anything locked down is a piece of crap then I guess you're right. But if you're saying it's locked down and is a piece of crap on its own, I think I disagree. Me and probably 95% of the people who have ever touched one.

Opinions aside, I wonder if Apple was so against opening it up because they wanted to reserve the right to change the APIs to fit any updates they planned in the future. With control of the few installed apps, they can make core changes to the OS to extend the abilities of the iPhone, then rewrite the parts of the apps to fit with the new core. If they let anyone make apps, they'd either break them everytime the core changed (see the last 3 updates for examples) or they'd have to stabilize the core (which is probably what they've done now that they're releasing an SDK).

I wonder if this is just prep for iPhone 2...let people go crazy with the first iPhone, and save the lockdown for the greater iPhone 2 soon to arrive.

"Dude...3G is cool and all, but you can't even customize your apps on iPhone2. Check out this gnarly rdesktop client I've made..."

Re:Bummer :-(

[DeepZenPill]

They're only sewing the seeds of their own destruction by introducing more restrictions to developers.

Re:Does It Really Matter?

[Anonymous Coward]

... which is ironic knowing the vendor lock-in Apple does.

Yeah, total lock-in. I just wish that, when the time comes that I start to feel the lock-in, it would be possible to install Windows XP, or Vista, or one of those many x86 Linux distros on my MacBook. Oh wait, I can install any one of those. I could even run all of them at the same time along with Mac OS X and run any application I feel like.

Dang Apple and their lock-in.