Apple has released the eighth beta version of the iPhone SDK.
Log in to the iPhone Dev Center and take advantage of all the development resources available to you, including the new version of the iPhone SDK.
This eighth beta release of the iPhone SDK includes a complete set of tools, compilers, frameworks, and documentation for creating iPhone OS applications. These tools include the Xcode IDE, and the Instruments analysis tool, among many others. With this software you can develop applications that run on iPhone and iPod touch using the included iPhone Simulator.
Beta release 8 is compatible with the final iPhone OS 2.0 release and must be used to build and sign any iPhone OS application to be submitted to the App Store. As a reminder, you must be a member of the iPhone Developer Program to submit apps.
More info here.
yah first post!!!!!
Beta? Cutting it awfully close aren’t they?
What’s New
Beta release 8 is compatible with the final iPhone OS 2.0 release and must be used to build and sign any iPhone OS application to be submitted to the App Store. As a reminder, you must be a member of the iPhone Developer Program to submit apps.
Others will have to figure out what’s new but ‘secret’.
hurry up guys, i can’t wait to control my AppleTV with iPhone and see what else will be next years must have apps!
Great. Now the elite developers that are actually allowed to develop for the iPhone can do so while everyone who isn’t buddy buddy with Steve Jobs is left out in the cold.
Way to drive “innovation”, Apple; a locked down platform where only special Jobs-approved apps are allowed. It’s not Apple’s business to tell me what I can and can’t do with my phone. I will continue using Jailbreak and not Apple’s crippled, locked-down version of mobile development that forces developers to gain Apple’s approval and take a 30% cut if they want to distribute their applications.
This new iPhone SDK is a symptom of everything wrong with the internet, but you fanboys lap it up like it’s the greatest thing ever. It’s proprietary and closed. I propose we all boycott the iPhone and its SDK until Apple opens it up and allows some true innovation and creativity to occur.
I’ve got a “reality check” for you — get over it! The solution to your problem is to make your own phone, using Google Android as the operating system. Then you can have all the slow and unreliable interface problems you have been trying to foist on everyone else.
@”Reality Check”:
I’ll boycott it the second you can show me that any other phone manufacturer offers a better revenue split with a more open SDK of their own on a higher-quality handset.
In other words, when Apple rolls out revisions to the iPhone SDK, I will boycott their then-obsolete PREVIOUS guidelines with you.
There better be copy and paste hidden in that code. Or else I’ll get a Zune……. to smash with frustration.
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@Reality Check;
Please; Go on enjoying your *freedom* and *innovation* with the 5-6 or so *open* programs you’ll be able to install after The App Store opens.
In 3 weeks, I’ll be livin’ Large with the THOUSANDS of programs written for my *locked down* and *crippled* iPhone.
You want a “Reality Check”?
How about you put your money where your mouth is?
I’m willing to bet you that within 6 months of the App Store’s opening, I’ll have more apps available on my “crippled, locked down” phone than you will EVER have on your hack.
C’mon c’mon c’mon, I double dog dare you!
Yeah, you trolls are all the same. Your fanboy’ism for whateveritisyou’rerantingabouttoday is mindless drivel.
Go buy a ZunePhone (it’ll follow the iPhone in 5 to 7 years), then tell me how *open* MicroSoft’s reply is, won’t you?
Putz.
I love how you all ignore the real point, which is that it’s not Apple’s place to tell me what I can and can’t do with my phone or iPod, but that is just what the App store allows them to do: decide which Apps they want to allow me to use, and they could object to any app for any reason.
The fact that you can’t see this is problematic is probably where the whole “Church of Apple” thing came from.
Would you accept it if Apple decide that from now on, you can only install Apple-approved applications on Macs, and that you can only buy them from Apple stores (online or brick and mortar)? Would you say “Well, it will work better! Look, no more security and quality problems!”? I think not. But how is this any different? You fanboys love to harp on about how the iPhone is basically just a computer, the future of computing, whatever, but when someone points out a flaw, it’s oh, well at least it’s better than the alternatives! Great, lesser of available evils, that’s a great product pitch. Here’s a clue for you: just because everyone else is even worse is no excuse for Apple to join in being evil.
Jesus Christ STFU and cram it in your cram hole. My daddy can beat up your daddy … did we actually LEAVE High School AFTER (or if) we ever graduated?!?!? Keep your crash-o-matic PC … love it all you want – I’ve been giggling ever since I bought my MAC and I am never looking back. Buy what you want – use what you want – pay for what you want – and STFU!!!! Do something else other than pick your nose and type all you can on these sites – get a career instead of a job – take a hike – move out of your mom’s house – stop tuggin’ it to inter-x and get a girlfriend – jackaz!
“just because everyone else is even worse is no excuse for Apple to join in being evil.”
Apple is not “Joining In” Apple is taking closedness and control to a new level.
With Microsoft, by signing the appropriate NDAs, you get full source for Windows Mobile.
The tools to build apps are stable and established, not beta.
You can build any app that does any thing (Including run in the background and use VOIP). Microsoft has no say in what your app does or right of veto on your ability to market it.
You can market it through any channel you like and keep 100% of the revenue.
The same can be said of Android.
So just what’s good for developers about the closed, controlled Apple approach?
@ballonknot,
They usually don’t have gamma releases.
“You can market it through any channel you like and keep 100% of the revenue.”
And the hosting, advertising, marketing costs? How much are they?
Someone doesn’t buy your app, you don’t pay Apple a penny. In the meantime, you have access to hundreds of millions of customers worldwide on the slickest, easiest, highest profile store there is anywhere on the internet. That’s what your 30% buys.
Reality Check,
Anyone can register to be an iPhone developer. The waiting list thing is over with. The app store won’t open until July 11th at the earliest so still plenty of time to code.
What’s your bitch?
But I can build my own PC with whatever parts I want instead of Apple forcing their proprietary hardware down my throat—and it runs Windows! I can customize and tweak stuff you MAC dorks can only dream about and I can get all the parts from anywhere and they’re super cheap. When are you MAC lemmings going to figure out that Apple is controlling, proprietary and expensive? Their dumpy I-Phone is just another example.
Your potential. Our passion.™
@ Apple is a cult.
“So just what’s good for developers about the closed, controlled Apple approach?”
Ease of use.
All this namby pamby talk of ease of use, quality of the experience, stability, security and simple internet-based purchasing at a high-profile portal is silly. Do you MAC sissies actually think people are interested in that? For a bunch of ‘ease of use’ whiners you sure make it complicated. People want tons of choices—even if, no, especially if 99% are of low quality—and cheap prices. Can you get an I-Phone at Wal-Mart? I rest my case.
And who does Apple think they are picking and choosing who can sell their apps at the I-Tunes store? Everyone should have a chance. More of the same old elitism from the cult masters. Dorks.
Your potential. Our passion.™
“In the meantime, you have access to hundreds of millions of customers worldwide on the slickest, easiest, highest profile store there is anywhere on the internet. That’s what your 30% buys.”
Which would be fine if you have the option of considering that 30% to be good value and going with Apple as your retailer, or going your own way. You’re stupid if you think you can just put an app on iTunes and have it sell without any other marketing. Apple is charging you 30% of every download to be basically a web hosting service and ecommerce site.
“And the hosting, advertising, marketing costs? How much are they?”
As noted, Apple covers hosting for 30%. No advertising and marketing is included. Advertising and marketing costs are still your problem.
“I want Apple and Steve Jobs to decide for me just who can deliver that to me.”
Right, you think they’re actually going to test quality of apps and your phone will never crash with it’s downloaded apps. They can’t even do that with the built in ones. They’re just going to filter out classes of apps and vendors they don’t want on the phone. Unless you have no brain, why put that decision in the hands of Apple.
As with any other app you might pick for any other platform you use you can read independent reviews and pick those which are know to work well, and don’t use those that don’t. Who chooses apps by random trial and error?
“If you don’t, fine. There are other cell phone makers out there – go program for them.”
Which is what will happen. Steve screwed the pooch keeping the Mac a proprietary and closed platform. It could have been the world’s leading platform, instead it’s a marginal player with a cult following. He doesn’t seem to have learned anything with the iPhone.
“Ease of use.”
There’s nothing easy about Apple’s developer program compared to the other guys.
@Apple is a Cult:
Well, apparently Sega and many other developers who had 2 weeks with the first iPhone SDK disagree with you. They were very impressed with the tools Apple provided.
“They were very impressed with the tools Apple provided.”
They were invited to stand up and get some free publicity. What were they going to say, that the tools suck? That’s a short route to being banned from the iTunes store.
Apple is a Cult = Reality Check,
You didn’t answer my question.
Stop railing about shit if you don’t know what you are talking about.
“You didn’t answer my question.”
Sorry sir, I didn’t realize you didn’t understand the posts above about control vs freedom, I’ll prepare an answer for you right now sir.
Tosser.
Eh, just to remind everyone
If you dont want to charge for ur apps, you can put them in the apps store for free.
@Cubert
First of all, I know it’s hard for you to believe there might be two people who are capable of noticing Apple’s bull$#!% and calling them on it, but that seems to be the case, as I am not “Apple is a Cult”
Second of all, the only question I could find is:
“What’s your bitch?”
To which I suppose I will reply: Yo mamma is my bitch.
Happy?