Gearlog interview clears up iPhone and Touch details

I just want the iphone without the phone or camera. I have a phone that I'm already paying service for and I don't need yet another $20 fee. Give me a good pda (with calendar), stocks, music, maps, etc. and I'll be very happy. Why take all of the best features out and then charge almost as much for the thing. I just don't get it.

This hopefully means the Mail app is portable to the touch, or some other email app nobody released yet.

Is anyone else as baffled with the "OMG Calendar is broken" outcry as I am? I just don't get what the big deal is. Other iterations of the iPod couldn't add calendar events... why would this one? Just because it looks like an iPhone? I just don't get it.

Does anyone else think that software and the iPod Touch may be part of something much larger? Here's what I'm thinking: Apple begins selling software for a nominal fee via iTunes. This would give Apple a stranglehold on selling both 1st party and 3rd party applications and become a fantastic medium for developers wanting to create great products that can reach millions almost instantly.

Erica:
Do you know if there is a way to write a piece of software that will enable A2DP profile bluetooth on the iphone? I know that on the treo 650, which did not support a2dp, you can buy some software and it will enable it.
It would be amazing if you could use bluetooth headphones with the iphone.
-Zoli

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All I can say is that if there is no SDK announced at WWDC 08, there will be blood flowing down the streets outside Moscone...

(In fact, I believe Wil Shipley has already placed an order for a guillotine (who would've thunk Amazon carried this line) to be delivered July '08.)

Blood in the streets, I tell you. The wrath of angry developers would exceed that of Khan.

Vive la révolution!

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PS In other news, Steve said video on an iPod was digging in the wrong place - cue Raiders of the Lost Ark clip. And whadya know, EVERY iPod (bar the tie clip) now does video.

All I can say is that if there is no SDK announced at WWDC 08, there will be blood flowing down the streets outside Moscone...

(In fact, I believe Wil Shipley has already placed an order for a guillotine (who would've thunk Amazon carried this line) to be delivered July '08.)

Blood in the streets, I tell you. The wrath of angry developers would exceed that of Khan.

Vive la révolution!

.

PS In other news, Steve said video on an iPod was digging in the wrong place - cue Raiders of the Lost Ark clip. And whadya know, EVERY iPod (bar the tie clip) now does video.

You know this may have been said before, but here goes:

iPhone/touch run Leopard, right? or as far as we know. Apple is the most secretive company-rivaling the NSA-j/k. Leopard isn't out yet. So if there are new things for programmers in Leopard (like CoreData was added to Tiger) then we probably won't have guides on programming because they disclose details about Leopard.

So once Leopard is released we could see an iPhone software update, but I'm still not to sure on this one being that Apple is backing web apps so heavily.

Apple would be stupid NOT to have an SDK. Killer apps are the best way of locking people to the phone to ensure that when their contract expires, they renew it.

I think it's likely that it will be released around the same time as Leopard, in order to coincide with Xcode 3. It would be silly for them to release an update for Xcode 2 with iPhone support when Xcode 3 is so close. Apple have been developing the iPhone for so long that they would not have left the SDK as an afterthought.