Greg Joswiak on iPhone applications

Yes yes Apple, but will Truphone be allowed to be one of your "legitimate" iPhone apps? If so I'll buy one of your iPhones.

Anyone notice how the public posting of iPhone code and tips has completely dried up??? Actually, complete source code was practically nonexistent in the first place -- for all the hooey about open source and freedom of this and that, most of the 3rd party apps released have just been binaries, very little source released to any of it.

Seems a wee bit hypocritical of this community.

I'm trying to reconcile the possibility of Apple reviewing (or, at a minimum, 'approving for distribution') iPhone apps with 'grassroots' developer access to the iPhone SDK. Where are the resources and expertise going to come from to do code review on thousands of grassroots iPhone apps? Will developers pay to get a "works with iPhone" badge?

My (admittedly uninformed) guess is that developers will be able to register for a signing certificate when they download the SDK. Any app that runs on the iPhone will need to be signed, and traceable back to the SDK licensee who published it. Otherwise, Apple's hands are off -- it would be hellaciously expensive to code-audit all those iPhone apps.

Now, as to the capabilities of the SDK to dive into the saucy bits of the phone... well, probably not.

Sean, I need to tell you something. Your Air Hockey game makes all my female friends squeal with glee whenever they see it.

That said, is there any way to make it less buggy? It seems to have a lot of random trouble picking up touches.

I develop therefore I am....

Yeah.. I'm sure I'm not a "legitimate" developer only having writing an app every day for all of November so far... See: http://www.iappaday.com/ :)

I honestly don't think February will bring anything exciting. We'll look at apps from a limited set of developers that we'll have to pay for. Apple will praise itself for being so nice to us and anybody that has/had a jailbroken phone will scratch their heads and wonder why we're paying for applications that come close to 15% of the total app functionality available today.

Too legit to quit... was an "awesome" song by MC Hammer.

May I submit this article to:
http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/

for you?

Yeah, usage of the word "legitimate" is a very difficult art to master without insulting someone. I'm surprised he wasn't better-rehearsed.