“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.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MacVicta” for the heads up.]
Apple hasn’t made an announcement yet. I don’t know anything either. They may make their deadline, they may not. There are rumors.
Hell, anyone could blog for BusinessWeek, even me.
Well…better late than pregnant.
Apple is LATE with everything, so why should this be any different?
Typical. More vaporware and empty promises from Apple.
The SDK for Windows Mobile was on time and the applications Windows Mobile developers came up with are fantastic.
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While not a serious problem, this is a bit embarrassing and – for some – a whole lot annoying. As someone who spent 1/10th the price of an iPhone for his “basic” cell phone, it doesn’t mean that much to me … but there are a couple million folks out there with a different attitude. They bought on a promise. A promise it seems will be delayed.
Dave
A few weeks ago there were rumors of an Apple event for this coming Tuesday, the 26th. Nothing yet has come of those rumors.
I am not happy by this, yet I want an SDK that will allow developers to release quickly applications without a mess of bugs in the SDK. Hopefully Apple will at the very least announce some apps and games for the iPhone and iPod touch. That would help ease the wait for more apps.
I hope Apple learns from this and other recent missed deadlines and starts padding their deadlines. Better to say it will be delivered in March and deliver in February if possible than to commit to February and miss the deadline. We’ll know in less than a week, either way.
But honestly, people are so happy with the iPhone that I don’t think it will have any actual negative affect. The press, of course, will turn around a make a frenzy of it.
@DLMeyer,
Apple didn’t talk about releasing a SDK until several months after the iPhone was released.
This doesn’t bother me. I’m late for everything so I understand.
All I know is that there are a LOT of people working in Cupertino this weekend.
IMaki and Zune Tang@ get a life. “Apple is late..” read this and weep (one of hundreds of articles) http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-6054320-7.html. Empty promises, you don’t have a clue MSFT fanbay. Zune the iPod killer HHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAA, Xbox 360 the best ever too bad it overheats and now plays a defunked DVD format, and then there is Vista, great work after 5+ years of development…oh it sucks, but I thought it was suppose to be the best OS ever!!!!!
The sound of satire going over even more heads.
@DLMeyer,
“Bought on a promise?” Wtf? I bought my iPhone on June 29th based upon what Steve Jobs showed it would do during the keynote at MWSF in January. Enjoy your 1/10th the price phone that does about 1/100th of what my iPhone can do.
Goober.
Apple always push it to the limit during SW and HW development. So what if the SDK is delayed a month. The iphone will evolve over the next few years just like the ipod.
I think hear the sounds of developer frustration rather than consumer despair.
An excuse for the media to have a gloomfest – the rest of us will just carry on making calls.
After all, the iPhone still works as per SJ’s original presentation, doesn’t it?!
Would love to know what all these great applications are for Windows Mobile. Maybe some are just easily pleased.
Much rather wait than have problems. No problem waiting another few weeks for a stable, well thought out and well executed SDK.
Lol! You bunch of jackals respond as though you believe this idiot. This asshole says the situation is fluid, we may hear more next week, but wait, one insider says it may be one week late … Hold it! Make that 3 weeks late! Then come all the asswipe crybabies …. Wahhhh, this is typical apple, wahhh, its an embarassment for apple, waaaahhhh.
Grow the fsuck up you cry babies.
Cubert and </b>Arnold Ziffel</b>, the promise was that “it will be here”, later amended to “in February”. Yes, those who felt it was worth the cost for what it delivered when purchased, there is no problem. And, A.Z., my budget phone does everything I ask of it and more. While an iPhone would certainly do more, I wouldn’t be asking it to do any of those things … so, what’s the value in it? Would you buy a Dodge Viper to commute to work and shop at the grocery store? I mean … you could, but folks would laugh at you.
Mike, did you notice where Zune Tang® mentioned “vaporware” and the “fantastic software” for WinME? We all know there is none (unless you count the occasional “lateware”) and none. Suggesting … what? Every one of his(?) comments contains an “off-target” attack (or two, or three) that applies more to M$ than to Apple. That’s the point. Some people are just S L O W !
DLMeyer,
Say what?
My iPhone purchase was delayed only because I had a contract with Verizon.
When the iPhone was announced, I knew I’d be buying it, and I (and millions of others) had NO IDEA that an SDK would ever be released.
SDK’s/hacks/cheap a** phones from other vendors never entered the equation, and still don’t.
@DLMeyer,
I just meant that not a whole lot of people bought an iPhone between October and now because of third party apps. I think it’s more likely that they bought it for all the other reasons (ie. features).
My iphone purchase was only delayed until my first payday following the release…
@ Arnold Ziffel & DJ – Just to strengthen your statements…I want to note that not only does the iPhone work as promised in the original keynote, it actually has more functionality than promised since Apple upgraded it’s features with the last update.
The iPhone is truly an amazing device that does NOT disappoint.
The truth is, technology development is a very difficult thing. In announcing last October that the SDK would be ready in February, Jobs was setting a goal. There is never any guarantee that a technological goal can be achieved in a forecasted amount of time, especially when sailing through uncharted waters (Such as the iPhone OS development hurdles are to Apple)
Sixvodkas … OK, so it was a “feature” you felt you didn’t need. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t promised to you. I don’t need, or want, portable surfing or – god forbid – text messaging, which doesn’t mean even my cheap-phone doesn’t promise the latter. Neither ever entered the equation. Glad you love your iPhone, you and the vast majority of the others who bought them, and I’m glad you find them worth the extra money. I never said you bought because of this promise, but many had that in mind when they did. Not that it was the selling point, just one among many.
@ DL Meyer – “my budget phone does everything I ask of it and more. While an iPhone would certainly do more, I wouldn’t be asking it to do any of those things … so, what’s the value in it? Would you buy a Dodge Viper to commute to work and shop at the grocery store? I mean … you could, but folks would laugh at you.”
Wrong. Not a correct comparison. The value to me, and I would guess most, is not that it is a slick, racy version of a regular cell phone (although the iPhone does indeed deliver that satisfaction) but instead simplifies and hugely enhances the usabiility of the features found on a standard handset. If you can easily use the features of your current phone then great, most people, though, have a very tough time doing more than calling.
And people laugh at those with an iPhone? … perhaps a few idiots. Most are intrigued and wishing they had one. The value of the iPhone is that it has the polished functionality of the Mac built into a pocket device.