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By: 5 great applications for the iPhone

5 great applications for the iPhone — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:22:45 +0000

[...] D5, one of the things that Steve Jobs mentioned was that he wants to give third-party developers the possibility of creating applications for the [...]

By: RUMOR: 3rd Party iPhone SDK coming at WWDC…but probably not for everyone… by Apple Gazette

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:09:33 +0000

[...] Gizmodo decided to grab a front page digg this morning by posting a “rumor” about an iPhone SDK coming at WWDC, apparently, based on the fact that Steve Jobs said 3rd Party applications would be coming to the iPhone later this year. Now, nevermind the fact that he told the same thing to Newsweek IN JANUARY … that’s right, even though people seem to really want to complain about NO 3rd party support for the iPhone, Jobs ALREADY said they would allow 3rd party Apps on the iPhone… [...]

By: iPhone: Will it have 3rd party apps? by Vioxx News

iPhone: Will it have 3rd party apps? by Vioxx News — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:35:08 +0000

[...] Apple Gazette theorizes that Cingular doesn’t want developers writing replacements for their for-fee services. He quotes Steve Jobs’ lame excuse for restricted application access: “These are devices that need to work, and you can’t do that if you load any software on them,” he said. “That doesn’t mean there’s not going to be software to buy that you can load on them coming from us. It doesn’t mean we have to write it all, but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment.” [...]

By: iPhone: Will it have 3rd party apps? by Elliott Back

iPhone: Will it have 3rd party apps? by Elliott Back — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:35:58 +0000

[...] People keep going back and forth on whether we’ll be able to write our own applications for the iPhone. Since it runs a version of OSX on an ARM processor, there should be a rich set of APIs for graphics, file system IO, net applications, and UI. We know that Apple’s OSX Quartz API was recently modified to allow resolutions differing from 72dpi by introducing the notion of “scale.” Their software is ripe for 3rd party applications on the iPhone, and we know from their Yahoo / Google partnerships that non-apple software will already be running on the iPhone. Apple Gazette theorizes that Cingular doesn’t want developers writing replacements for their for-fee services. He quotes Steve Jobs’ lame excuse for restricted application access: “These are devices that need to work, and you can’t do that if you load any software on them,” he said. “That doesn’t mean there’s not going to be software to buy that you can load on them coming from us. It doesn’t mean we have to write it all, but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment.” [...]

By: Dan S

Dan S — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:59:07 +0000