Filed under: Developer, iPhone
iPhone SDK: 100K downloads in 4 days
It's safe to say there's a lot of interest in the iPhone SDK. In the first four days since its release on March 6, the SDK has been downloaded 100,000 times. Also, the video of the press event at Apple.com has already been viewed more than 1,000,000 times. That's a lot of interest in something that's only truly meaningful to one group of people - developers. But I see where the anticipation comes from.
As a consumer, I'm just as excited by this release. When I first started playing with the iPhone, I said that it feels like a computer that happens to make phone calls, not a phone with some additional features. The promise of great native applications by some of my favorite Mac developers reinforces that feeling.
The iPhone is quickly becoming my favorite Mac.
[Via MacMinute]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Zimmie said 11:57AM on 3-12-2008
2.1 GB per download, 100,000 downloads, means that this developer kit alone has caused 210 TB of traffic for Apple.I *really* don't want to see that bandwidth bill, but with how much cash they have they could afford it pretty easily.
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Tony said 12:38PM on 3-12-2008
Most of it seemed to go via akamai
Even the first day when the main site was fubar if you got past that (eg. use https to login, use direct URL to fetch the dmg) you could max out the bandwidth on the download - I was getting 900kbps which is pretty close to my theoretical max.
Rick said 12:31PM on 3-12-2008
Of course this only counts those who downloaded it directly from Apple. A handful (myself included) had to resort to a torrent of the .dmg when Apple couldn't handle the load that first day.
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PINE said 1:23PM on 3-12-2008
I still get 404 errors when trying to DL the file
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Luigi193 said 2:55PM on 3-12-2008
I can't write any Objective-C, but I downloaded it anyway!
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cdbeshore said 3:49PM on 3-12-2008
i had to torrent it too. I'd say there are many more than 100,000 copies floating around. Of course 99% of those won't get used for anything substantial.
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Bryan Walls said 6:12PM on 3-12-2008
It's worth the download just for the emulator. I'd recommend it for anyone doing web development who wants to see what their site looks like on the iPhone or Touch.
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Hawke said 6:27PM on 3-12-2008
Wow, that's certainly a lot... guess this means that antitrust suits when Apple prevents third party browsers from running is more likely as they take the top position in the smartphone market?
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sleepyfox said 6:54AM on 3-17-2008
But where do us budding iPhone App developers go for tech forums?
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Felix said 11:25AM on 3-25-2008
You can go to my dev blog + forum: http://www.iphonedevhelp.com
Just join the forums and let's start coding.