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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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
raymondsar said 4:19PM on 2-13-2008
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!
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bergy said 2:39PM on 2-26-2008
Someone asked me "So do you think the iPhone SDK release will be postponed?", I said, "Does a Leopard ship in the woods?"
dagamer34 said 4:25PM on 2-13-2008
I 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.
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Macroy said 5:28PM on 2-13-2008
Don't you just hate typos?
BWhaler said 5:41PM on 2-13-2008
Macroy:
Greatest. Response. Ever.
dagamer34 said 5:43PM on 2-13-2008
Wow.... lol.
*ship* =p
Bob S. said 4:28PM on 2-13-2008
So you've stopped reporting on iPhone hacks like ziPhone because the SDK is imminent?
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raymondsar said 4:29PM on 2-13-2008
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.
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Bob said 5:30PM on 2-13-2008
"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!)
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Jeremy said 5:45PM on 2-13-2008
"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.
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Sam said 1:13PM on 2-14-2008
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.
Si Brindley said 9:57PM on 2-15-2008
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.
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