February 28, 2008

Apple To Open Up iPhone Further

by Piers Fawkes

Apple are to detail a software road map for the iPhone on March 6 that will allow developers to create applications for the iPhone. To date, all applications for the iPhone have been via the web-browser. Now applications will able to run off the phone itself. In the NY Times, one analyst suggests that this will bring a whole bunch of new and exciting apps:

“Apple has understood the importance of local applications and they are responding to that, and it will help them sell more iPhones,” said Tim Bajarin, principal analyst of Creative Strategies.

“It should release a plethora of creative applications and it will make the iPhone much more practical as a mobile applications tool,” Bajarin said.

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Apple Affirms iPhone Target - New York Times

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3 Responses to “Apple To Open Up iPhone Further”

  1. Ryan
    Posted from: 216.115.180.7

    February 28th, 2008 at 11:42 am

    As an owner of a jailbroken iPhone running 1.1.3, the SDK is the birth of true mobile computing…on a recent flight (sans connectivity, of course), I was able to watch a movie, read a book, play games of pool, dominos, and chess, fire up the old school NES for some PunchOut, get some writing done, and complete my budgeting for an upcoming apartment purchase.

    Overlay decent connectivity (i.e., 3G), and the next big needs are exchange server support (make note of the “exciting enterprise features” mention in the release) and products that integrate with Office. With a fervent development community fueling this, it’s only a matter of time…took Apple 6 months+ to even realize what they had here (notice that the Touch is no longer “the best iPod ever”, but rather now “a mobile computing platform”), but better late then never.

  2. dailydesignspot
    Posted from: 71.229.51.180

    February 28th, 2008 at 11:50 am

    do you think that this will open up the possibilities of using skype?

  3. Floyd Hayes
    Posted from: 68.161.244.192

    February 28th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

    As long as it plays “Doom” I’m happy.

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