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Apple Gives Third Party Applications on the iPhone Its Blessing
Apple to allow outside applications on iPhone
Orange's Apple Deal To Bear Unlocked iPhones
Apple opens up iPhone to app developers - 'Unneccessary' SDK to ship February
Opera and Mozilla Step Up Mobile Browser Pressure
PC Mag: Apple Comes to Its Senses
The Mac Night Owl: The iPhone SDK: Forced or Preordained
Apple Gives Third Party Applications on the iPhone Its Blessing
An Apple Hot News Posting authored by Steve Jobs says:
Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers' hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.
It will take until February to release an SDK because we're trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once - provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc. This is no easy task. Some claim that viruses and malware are not a problem on mobile phones - this is simply not true.....
The SDK will also allow developers to create applications for iPod touch....
You can check it out at:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/
Apple to allow outside applications on iPhone
Reuters reports:
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs said on Wednesday that outside developers will be allowed to create programs for the iPhone, changing a policy that had angered many.
Blocking outsiders from making programs that would run easily on the iPhone has been one of a series of restrictions that have annoyed users, even leading to some lawsuits.
Jobs, in comments on Apple's Web site, said a kit for developers still will not be available until February, as the company works out how to open up the phone without exposing it to malicious programs.
"We think a few months of patience now will be rewarded by many years of great third party applications running on safe and reliable iPhones," Jobs said on the Web site at http://www.apple.com/hotnews/
For the full report visit here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071017/tc_nm/apple_iphone_dc
Orange's Apple Deal To Bear Unlocked iPhones
The Register's Tony Smith reports:
Orange will indeed offer Apple's iPhone on France, but the most interesting aspect of the two firms' partnership will be the availability, for the first time, of officially unlocked handsets.
French law prevents carriers from tying handsets exclusively to their networks - consumers have to be able to move to a different network provider and take their phones with them. The upshot is that Orange will sell a locked iPhone for Euro 399 alongside an unlocked model for a price that's yet to be specified by either party.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/17/apple_orange_unlocked_iphones/
Apple opens up iPhone to app developers - 'Unneccessary' SDK to ship February
The Register's Bill Ray reports:
The iPhone and iTouch are to get a Software Developers Kit in February next year, allowing developers to create proper native applications for the platform and allowing it to properly compete with other smart phones, Steve Jobs announced on the company's website today.
Just four months after declaring that "...no software developer kit is required for the iPhone" at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in June, The Apple CEO that such an SDK will be available, and was always planned once the wrinkles had been ironed out.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/17/iphone_sdk/
Opera and Mozilla Step Up Mobile Browser Pressure
The Register's Wireless Watch says:
The first key milestone on the road to a genuinely appealing mobile web experience is an effective browser, and the competition to provide that vital tool is heating up. The Apple Safari open source platform has made the running so far, both in the iPhone and Nokia's homegrown browser, which is Safari-based.
Microsoft is still struggling to make Internet Explorer really at home on a mobile device and Google's promised offering has not yet materialised. Outside Safari, the strongest contender has been Opera, which has now signed up new allies Freescale and NEC to push its technology further into the mobile mainstream – just as internet players like Mozilla raise their own challenge, ahead of the inevitable attack from Google.
Opera, though it gained tiny market share on the PC, has fared far better against Microsoft in the mobile and embedded worlds, and recently has been doing a good job of partnering with key chipmakers to marry its browser with their handset architectures.....
Meanwhile, open source organisation Mozilla is stepping up efforts to make its Firefox browser dominant on the mobile platform. Already supported by Intel for the UMPC (UltraMobile PC) platform, Mozilla now plans to release a mobile version of its software early next year, geared to cellphones.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/17/opera_mozilla_mobile_browser/
PC Mag: Apple Comes to Its Senses
Let the world rejoice: the iPhone is now a platform. Whether you're an iPhone user or not, this is good news for you and your handheld.
To read more, go to:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2200634,00.asp
The Mac Night Owl: The iPhone SDK: Forced or Preordained
You know a lot of what Steve Jobs says during interviews may be overlooked when controversy erupts about something Apple is doing at any given moment.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://macnightowl.com/2007/10/17/the-iphone-sdk-forced-or-preordained/
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