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Me too!

I have nothing important to add, but it would be remiss of me not to point out that I too am totally excited by it all. They really seem to have done a wonderful job and produced a marvelously designed object. Bravo. Plus, we had lots of fun following the whole thing unfolding on IRC and websites.

Just one question though: will anyone be able to develop apps for this thing? It seems like it could be a catalyst for finally launching location-aware software into the mainstream, but it wasn’t really mentioned. I imagine it would require a whole new development platform though, right? Or maybe just an API for Cocoa? Would Cingular try to prevent a VOIP app (they evidently weren’t pleased enough to allow one to be bundled)? Is it UNIX based?

Ok, that was more than one question. No doubt more to come.

2 comments

  1. I can only guess right now, but the appearance of “widgets” and the talk of Core Animation and “Desktop Class Applications” means that people *should* be able to develop their own applications for the iPhone.

    Here’s hoping, at least.

    Posted by John, January 10th, 2007 at 12:10 am

  2. I’ve chatted to a couple of people about this. Someone who watched the video of the keynote (I haven’t) said that Steve mentioned something about Cocoa, but I still can’t imagine it would be possible to create those touchable apps with Cocoa as we know it. Perhaps they’re keeping something quiet until Leopard is announced? I’m pretty sure that the current OS X Dashboard widgets would work on the iPhone, but widgets aren’t exactly apps, are they? Macintouch has this:

    The only two iPhones at the show were under glass, and Apple representatives said it is a “closed platform”, refusing even to identify the specific processor it uses, and there’s apparently no developer kit for it, though “developers who want to do applications [for the iPhone] are welcome to contact Apple developer relations.”

    On other news, my website appears to be broken. Hmm.

    Posted by emmetc, January 10th, 2007 at 12:19 pm

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