“Apple’s iPhone SDK offers far more than many developers expected, according to developers that InfoWorld spoke with after the long-awaited SDK unveiled today,” Ephraim Schwartz reports for InfoWorld. “‘It looks like this is what everybody wanted,’ said Tony Meadow, principal at Bear River Associates, a mobile application development vendor. ‘Apple is doing it the right way.'”
Schwartz reports, “Forrester Research analyst Simon Yates, concurred, saying that the Apple SDK should please three core constituencies: Developers, enterprise IT and consumers. ‘This is direct competition for RIM BlackBerry, and it gives Apple access to millions of Exchange and Outlook users,’ said Yates.”
“What pleased Meadow and other developers was a set of functionality that will let them write native iPhone applications through access to the iPhone APIs,” Schwartz reports. “In addition, Meadow thought Apple hit the right note by offering SQL Lite as the built-in database layer. SQL Lite, an open-source database, is widely used by the mobile developer community and runs well on small devices.”
“As welcome as the SDK and enhanced business-oriented features are, people still have more they want Apple to offer,” Schwartz reports. “A common request is availability from more than one carrier. Currently, the iPhone only works on the AT&T network. ‘Companies don’t want a single carrier for voice and data,’ said Forrester’s Yates.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Ken L.” for the heads up.]
I think Apple have been planning this for the last 4-5 years. It is that depth of R&D;that sets Apple above all others. Nobody with the exception of perhaps Google is willing to invest time and money on doing it right.
Jobs mentioned that they wouldn’t block VOIP via WiFi. That opens the door for any service to provide alternative telephony to the major carrier. As WiFi expands coverage in major cities, some people could forge the iPhone for the iPod Touch, if complete access wasn’t an issue for them.
Does the iPodTouch have a microphone input?
“Does the iPodTouch have a microphone input?”
Not in the current version.
Yes, the Zune Thang seems to be cracking. I read another post and the resulting reply from someone on how to install Internet Explorer was way more hilarious than ZT has been for a while.
And now this: “I believe it’s eWorld. Freakin’ MAC dorks.”
Nothing about the “just wait to you see what MS has coming up in the latest vapourware” or “my Delldo gives me so much satisfaction, I even shove it where the zune shines.”
Nope, just a short spiteful comment about Mac dorks, about all that is left to the core of this, someone who hates people that happen to love what the technology can do. Pathetic really. I might think that the MS corporation sucks, and that their software sucks, but to actually stoop to hating the people who use MS products? Heck, thank goodness for them, they have stayed away from a stock that has made me a lot of money and technology that has allowed me to outcompete them on every turn. Gotta love them.
Can you hear the fat lady clearing her throat?
Just got to say this about ZT now:
Your hatred of people. Our love of people.™