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Fuzzy Logic Bring on the iPhone apps!
Fuzzy Logic Bring on the iPhone apps! | Bring on the iPhone apps! |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Tuesday, 05 June 2007 | |
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Page 1 of 2 The iPhone SDK is rumored to be coming next week at Apple’s WWDC, running this year from June 11 to June 15. But, as always with Apple, there’s no guarantee the magical SDK will appear, as Apple may yet be figuring out how best to allow other programmers access to the iPhone, while also keeping a firm lock on what software actually gets released to ensure a quality, crash free experience every time. This is clearly important to Jobs, and we can be sure he’ll only let developers have as much access as he feels comfortable with. After all, with the iPod, game development is tightly controlled, with games only available through iTunes, with the success of the system readily apparent. There’s no reason why iPhone software won’t be delivered in the same manner. Although this has annoyed some third party developers, it’s ensured quality for Apple, and is the way things work in the games console world too – you can be a third party if you want, but you need to be licensed to develop for the platform first. That doesn’t sadly prevent less than spectacular games being released at times but we suspect Apple’s standards are markedly higher in this regard for both iPod gaming, iPhone gaming and iPhone third party software in general. As we said, it’s clearly important to Jobs, as he made clear on a number of occasions in public, be it at the D: All Things Digital conference, in the New York Times or at his own shareholder’s meeting. On May 10, Jobs told shareholders that he was “wrestling” with the idea of third party apps, after months of signaling that freely downloadable third party apps from anywhere on the Web simply wasn’t part of the game plan. Jobs told the NYT that “We define everything that is on the phone. You don’t want your phone to be like a PC. The last thing you want is to have loaded three apps on your phone and then you go to make a call and it doesn’t work anymore.” What did Jobs say next? Please read onto page 2 for the conclusion... |
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