“Apple Inc.’s Steve Jobs, who built two of the world’s top consumer brands with the Macintosh and iPod, may let developers write programs for the iPhone to broaden the appeal of the company’s first mobile phone,” Connie Guglielmo reports for Bloomberg.
“Chief Executive Officer Jobs will give the keynote address today at Apple’s global developers’ conference in San Francisco,” Guglielmo reports. “The company is using the five-day event to tout Leopard, the latest version of the software that runs its Mac computers.”
Guglielmo reports, “The Mac operating system, called OS X, also powers the iPhone, the combination iPod music player and mobile phone that Apple will start selling June 29 in the U.S. Developers need Apple’s permission to create iPhone programs, and Jobs may give it, said Guy Kawasaki, founder of garage.com, a technology- startup consultant.”
“‘We’ll find a way to let third parties write’ programs while keeping the iPhone secure, Jobs said at a Wall Street Journal technology conference in Carlsbad, California, on May 30. ‘If you can just be a little more patient with us, I think everyone can get what they want,'” Guglielmo reports.
“Apple says it has more than 750,000 developers, who have written more than 12,000 Mac OS X programs. Sales of the computer have accelerated in the past two years,” Guglielmo reports.
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Skype!
This makes a lot of sense actually.
Apple knows it needs 3rd Party Apps and a robust development environment to make the iPhone grow beyond the initial wave of interest…
With wi-fi built-in, multi-player games could be interesting. Battery life might be an issue.
I read online that Sony is planning a PSP cellphone.
Developers Conference…
Anyone who thinks 3rd Parties won’t be pushing this platform are already working for MS.
Yeah, keep dreaming about Skype. AT&T is not going to give up the telephony aspect of the iPhone. Face it, you will be paying for all of your phone calls.
Skype would be killer!
Find a Wi-Fi hotspot and you’re golden!
The ability to run existing OS X Widgets to the iPhone would be great, given the huge array of functions built into them, as a whole. Things like Marquee for movie listings, Package Tracker, to name just 2.
These are interesting times!
AP, if there’s no Skype, then there’s always JaJah, which is browser based and AT&T can do nothing about.
There is no news like this – he said that there would be no SDK and 3rd party apps were out – read more here : http://mobile-things.com/iphone/lack-of-iphone-sdk-marketing-disaster-with-developers/