March 6, 2008
Touch-y SDK finally touchable
Posted Mar. 6, ’08, 2:03 PM PT by Dan Pourhadi
Category | iPod
Today was the holiest of High Holies: the iPhone Event where Apple officially took the wraps off the highly-anticipated SDK (or “software development kit,” for those of us with girlfriends), and laid out its enterprise strategy, for the iPhone and iPod touch.
Here’s a quick run-down of the NTK (“need to know”) deets:
- Use available OS X development layers: Core OS, Core Services, Media, and a new, mobile-focused interface API called Cocoa Touch.
- A whole bunch of new features: Push email, calendar, and contacts; Cisco VPN; remote wipe; ActiveSync and Microsoft Exchange (!!) support; etc.
- They demoed a few third-party iPhone/touch apps, including Epocrates, Salesforce.com, AOL IM (!!), SEGA’s Super Monkey Ball, and a mobile version of the upcoming Spore. Jobs says Apple will not limit VoIP capabilities on WiFi, only on the cell network (!!).
- The SDK is available as a free public download, and developers can sign up for the iPhone Developer Program to get access to a beta of the iPhone 2.0 update, which has all the new features and SDK support.
- All apps will be distributed through a new “App Store”; no official way around that.
- The iPhone 2.0 update will be free and available to the public in June; the iPod touch update will cost a small fee, like the last touch software update.
There’s plenty more, along with more in-depth analysis of all the features and revelations, at iPhone Central and Macworld. So CIO (“check it out”) and gawk eagerly at June on the calendar. Summer’s gonna be hot.
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