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BusinessWeek: Apple’s iPhone SDK will be late

Saturday, February 23, 2008 · 9:02 am · 65 Comments

“There’s a week to go before Apple’s commitment to release the iPhone Software Developers Kit in February runs out of room,” Arik Hesseldahl blogs for BusinessWeek.

“I’m hearing from one source that its going to be late,” Hesseldahl reports. “I’m not yet hearing any reasons why, and it’s sounding like the official release date could slide by anywhere from one to three weeks.”

“I’m also hearing that the situation is fluid, and a lot of last-minute decisions are close to being made about what precisely will or will not be disclosed next week, if anything,” Hesseldahl reports.

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Arnold Ziffel

Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 7:28 pm · Reply

@Thomas,

You are right about Apple delivering more than I purchased when I bought my iPhone on June 29th. iPhone has far exceeded my expectations of it, and I continue to marvel at how well it works. Just for the heck of it, I dug out our old Samsung flip phone that we had prior to the iPhone, and using it was like stepping back into the Flintstone era.

Any third party software that I might use in the future is just icing on the cake. I would be perfectly happy to have iPhone do no more than it does now. It is the most amazing electronic device I have ever used. Nothing else comes close.
ElderNorm

Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 7:46 pm · Reply

@DLMYERS
No sweat. Everyone should be free to use what ever equipment they wish.

I just have to wonder why there is an Apple Hate issue. I never hear people saying that its stupid to use a Palm Treo, or BB, or anyother phone. Yet people seem to go crazy about why Apple is bad.

I think that is why people that enjoy Apple products feel they need to — not build up Apple — but rather they are just trying to level the playing field.

Just a thought.

en
KingMel

Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 8:21 pm · Reply

Quality is far more important than release schedule. Pump it out early with bugs – complaints. Hold the release for a few weeks or months to get it right – complaints. Release an update that adds cool new features, even to models sold a year ago – complaints that they “should have been there all along.”

I am tired of complaints and, as a result, I am getting tired of rumors because they lead to complaints.

I am finished complaining. I like my iMac. I like my Airport Extreme Base Station. I like MacOS X 10.5.2. Is there room for improvement – certainly. And I provide that feedback to Apple.
Michael Dell

Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 9:11 pm · Reply

@DL Meyer

Your bonus will be late.

Sorry,

Mikey
ken1w

Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 9:38 pm · Reply

For most people, the iPhone SDK being late by a few weeks is a non-issue. How many even know what “SDK” stands for… or what it does? iPhone customers are already satisfied with their iPhone to an unprecedented degree. Having the SDK out to developers just makes third-party apps available sooner. That may make iPhone customers even more satisfied and happy, but there will be no problem if having third-party apps is delayed by a few weeks (except to developers).

It’s not like Windows Vista SP1, where continued delay is damaging Microsoft customers’ level of satisfaction (or increasing the level of dissatisfaction).
s

Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 9:38 pm · Reply

@Jay-Z: “I hope Apple learns from this and other recent missed deadlines and starts padding their deadlines”

Hofstadter’s Law

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

—Douglas Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, 20th anniversary ed., 1999, p. 152. ISBN 0-465-02656-7

REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter's_Law
Pumpkinhead

Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 11:38 pm · Reply

Typical of the new Applesoft.
Steve516

Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 11:42 pm · Reply

@ Zune Tang

I appreciate your consistent comedy… although I fear few others can see or understand it.
DLMeyer

Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 1:05 am · Reply

ElderNerm, I don’t recall saying – hinting, even – that “Apple is bad”. The iPhone is not appropriate for ME. This does not mean it isn’t the best product available for many others. I admit that Apple’s recent history – since The Return of The Jobs – has been spectacular … up until a year or so ago. And I’m pretty sure we can blame the recent blemishes on the iPhone. They still haven’t delivered a “full OSX” for it and several other products – like the Mac OSX – have suffered in the process. Still, we’re not talking about a disaster of Microsoftian proportions, we’re talking “cracks in the veneer” rather than in the foundation. I just bought $10,000 worth of AAPL … more like $9,000, now … and didn’t do that because I believe either the company or its products are bogus.
Dave Meyer
Big Al

Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 1:06 am · Reply

The SKD was promised to developers, not iPhone owners or prospective iPhone buyers. 99% of iPhone users couldn’t do anything with an iPhone SKD.

We are all waiting for wonderful new Apps and/or games. We all knew the new apps and games would not appear before the SKD was given to developers.

I would think that all of the Apps that Apple had planed to build and release for the iPhone, would have to appear before any SKD showed up. How bad would it look if Apple came out with The Next Best App after some other developer had released something quite similar already?

The iPhone SKD will be released when Apple has all of it’s ducks in a row and not a moment sooner. Probably some time in February.
Apple Passes HP

Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 4:27 am · Reply

Where’s the big headline now that Apple has passed HP in terms of market cap?

Or does MDN only report the good news?

C’mon MDN, lets get the market cap thing you were doing so well for a while going again.
RealityDistortionField

Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 4:31 am · Reply

“Enjoy your 1/10th the price phone that does about 1/100th of what my iPhone can do.”

Cheap phone:
Makes calls.
Plays music.
Plays videos
Browses web badly.
handles email badly.

IPhone:
Makes calls
Plays misic with a slightly better interface
Plays videos with a slightly better interface
Browses web slightly less badly
Handles email badly.

What exactly are the 100 times more features your expensive iPhone does?
In Reality

Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 4:44 am · Reply

‘I spent what I had to in order to get all the features I could “feature” using.”

The fact is, most people use their phones to make and take calls and very little else.

Most iPhone users use it as a ipod phone and very little else.

Just as most who buy Ferraris seldom drive them at 150+ miles per hour and many people who buy f-450′s never fill the bed up with 6000 pounds of stuff or tow 21500 pound trailers (for reference a trailer containing about 6 compact cars or 3 SUVs).
Mike

Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 8:41 am · Reply

You forgot:
IPhone:
Makes calls
Can yours pick out select messages without having go through the whole list?
Can you scroll though them with one finger motion?
Can you push one button to get all phone numbers per person?
Plays misic with a slightly better interface (no clue here)
Can yours link to iTunes automatically
Can you scroll though hundreds of songs with one finger?
Can you instantly go to a song of group of songs?
Plays videos with a slightly better interface (no clue here)
Can yours link to iTunes?
Can yours play in landscape mode?
Can you zoom in and out of photos?
Browses web slightly less badly (no clue again)
Can your phone connect to any Wifi automatically?
Can you zoom in and out, pan, scroll, select website.etc..?
Handles email badly (no clue on this one)
Can yours locate anything on a map and give you the directions, phone number and website?
Can it sync to your computer automatically for video, music, contacts, etc..
Can you modify the interface at will?
Can you have multiple pages of interfaces?
Can you get weather for anywhere in the world with a single button push?
Can you get time for anywhere in world with a single button push?

Shall I go on?

You Apple haters out to get a clue. You not insulting a small group of nuts anymore, there are lots of Apple product lovers and more being added each day. Welcome to the 21st century!!
Right

Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 9:39 am · Reply

“Browses web slightly less badly”

Obviously, you haven’t tried Safari on iPod Touch/iPhone.
gzero

Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 9:44 am · Reply

@RealityDistortionField:

please come back and reply once you’ve actually used an iPhone.
NewYorkRules

Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 12:01 pm · Reply

Ok, so these delays don’t matter because:

1. Better right than on time;
2. No one knows what SDK is anyway;
3. Apple makes great products;
4. Microsoft and Blackberry suck too; and
5. The iPhone rocks.

Does any of this really make these constant delays ok? And where is Time Capsule??
RealityDistortionField

Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 1:23 pm · Reply

“Makes calls”

Wow, ever seen a phone which can’t?

“Can yours pick out select messages without having go through the whole list?”
“Can you scroll though them with one finger motion?”

Who cares? i can see what calls I’ve missed and decide whether I need to bother picking up voicemail. I really don’t have a need to selectively screen it.

“Can you push one button to get all phone numbers per person?”

Absolutely.

“Plays misic with a slightly better interface (no clue here)
Can yours link to iTunes automatically
Can you scroll though hundreds of songs with one finger?
Can you instantly go to a song of group of songs?
Plays videos with a slightly better interface (no clue here)
Can yours link to iTunes?
Can yours play in landscape mode?
Can you zoom in and out of photos?
“

Yes. But I’d say the iPhone has the best interface of any music phone.

Can you watch live streaming video on your iPhone?
No.

“Browses web slightly less badly (no clue again)
“Can your phone connect to any Wifi automatically?”

Yes.

“Can you zoom in and out, pan, scroll, select website.etc..?”

Sure.

“Handles email badly (no clue on this one)”

Can you run Blackberry Connect or Mobile Outlook on your iPhone?
No.

“Can yours locate anything on a map and give you the directions, phone number and website?”

Of course, Google Maps works on just about any phone out there.

Can your iPhone give Garmin/TomTom style turn by turn directions to the destination?
No.

“Can it sync to your computer automatically for video, music, contacts, etc..”

Yes.
Can your iPhone do this wirelessly over the air?
No.

Can you modify the interface at will?
Can you have multiple pages of interfaces?

“Can you get weather for anywhere in the world with a single button push?”
Yes. But how many people need that?

“Can you get time for anywhere in world with a single button push?
“

Sure.

“Shall I go on?”

If you like, but you’ll only be showing your ignorance of how fully featured competing phones are.
Confused again

Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 3:12 pm · Reply

It always amazes me the people who post on these articles that have no interest in the subject. I have a Porsche and frequent several forums about it. I never see anyone going on and on against the car. Why would someone who does not have or want an iPhone feel the need to tell those of us who do about their feelings? WTF is with those folks?
Mike

Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 3:55 pm · Reply

Your the one that made the comment about the 1/10 price phone can do what the iPhone can do, so you tell me what $39.99 phone does all that, make and model, and I will stand corrected. And yes I know what other phones/blackberry’s can do, plus who the hell wants to run Blackberry connect and Outlook on their phone, god I got the iPhone to get away from Blackberry and Microsucks products.