Rumors: More iPhone SDK tidbits trickling in
Following up to my recent post, I'm now hearing additional scuttlebutt regarding the iPhone SDK release. The latest:
1. The SDK will ship on time for late February, but many features will be delayed, so this will be at best an alpha or beta release.
2. People who are in Apple's documentation department are working triple-quadruple-double-secret overtime.
3. Simulator will be there but you can also test applications directly on the hardware, via a docking cable tether.
Looking at the calendar, we should know one way or another within, say, two weeks. As always, many grains of salt, rumors, rumors rumors.
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Following up to my recent post, I'm now hearing additional scuttlebutt regarding the iPhone SDK release. The latest: 1. The SDK will ship...
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I don't think it was ever a secret that an iPhone simulator existed. Just watch the videos on Apple's Developer site that demonstrate web app creation. They're clearly using an iPhone simulator from the speed it renders web pages.
February 15 2008 at 9:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply"via a docking cable tether"?
Well, you'd better be able to put apps on your OWN device... it would be amazingly stupid to have to start actually selling the stuff via iTunes before you could even test it on a real device.
If you can't just load apps onto your own device and have them work, without some special flaming hoops, that will be a major, major problem.
Usually "test them on your own device" means something more than "run them on your own device". I would assume some remote debugging capability is available, and perhaps a profiler or somesuch.
February 13 2008 at 6:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply"2. People who are in Apple's documentation department are working triple-quadruple-double-secret overtime"
If they are then why is Apple leaking more software than leaks in Rapture?! (The Boishock city.. A duh!)
Nice freudian slip there!! I agree, the disk memory has been an issue. Im curious to see how much more of the power of the phone we can harness after the said SDK.
February 13 2008 at 4:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySo you've stopped reporting on iPhone hacks like ziPhone because the SDK is imminent?
February 13 2008 at 4:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI just wish Apple wouldn't be so secretive. We didn't know Leopard would shit until 9 days before it was supposed to be released!
I'm glad that they'll ship it soon. 3rd party apps have a habit of crashing my phone when multi-tasking. Needs more RAM.
I've heard that it will ship the first week of March by a moderately reliable source. It will in fact be a beta SDK, with the full suite not arriving until April. I know nothing though...... Take this for what its worth, I don't work for Apple, and I'm not a superior coder like Mrs. Sadun. Nor do I claim to know anything other than what I have said. Also, people please quit attacking her and other TUAW staff that have enough guts to risk ruining their devices. This is a knowledge based weblog, not a social environment. Much thanks for running yourselves through the ringers to get stuff done for us!
Someone asked me "So do you think the iPhone SDK release will be postponed?", I said, "Does a Leopard ship in the woods?"
February 26 2008 at 1:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHot Apps on TUAW
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