iLounge has reported that people familiar with the upcoming iPod Touch and iPhone SDK have said there will be restrictions on where you buy things made with the SDK (iTunes), what applications will be bought and sold and also that there will be no connectivity with accessories.
This shouldn’t be all that surprising because this is apple we are taking about. They won’t let the music industry have their way so it was unlikely to give 3rd party developers a free ride. The SDK will be coming out in beta (incomplete version) on March 6th. The event will have selected media (where’s my invite apple?), analysts, and developers. The final version of the SDK is rumored to come out in June during the Worldwide Developers Conference event in San Francisco.
It looks like developers who don’t want to go through Apple and iTunes will still have a large market to sell (or give) their products to because of all the jailbroken iPod Touch and iPhones….I am thinking about setting up a little marketplace on this site for developers to sell (or give) their applications, what do you think?
Also let me know in the comments if you are interested in getting this idea off the ground. (Developers, Ideas)…
Apple has released new software for the iPod Touch and iPhone bringing them both to 1.14. There has been no indication what the update fixed or added. There were some initial guesses that this may be the update that enabled the iPod Touch for SDK’s that are soon to be released. But so far there has been no indication that this is the case.
I have not updated my iPod Touch to 1.14 because I have my iPod Touch is currently jailbroken. I haven’t heard either way if the update breaks the jailbreak but I am assuming it does.
An iPod Touch hacker was able to hack his jailbroken iPod Touch (or iPhone) and use it as a wireless touchpad for his computer. This allows you to use your iPod as if it were a touchpad on a laptop where you can move the mouse around, double click or even drag menu items. The hack is complicated and I don’t know how useful it is…but still a pretty cool hack if you are bored and/or want to impress your friends.
Engadget has reported that starbucks may be working on a new app for the iPod Touch called quickorder. Where you could order your drink from your iPod Touch without having to wait in line. They mentioned that it is a proof of concept at this point but with the relationship between apple and starbucks it wouldn’t surprise me if you see this in action soon.
It’s been an exciting week due to the fact that the SNES emulator for the iPod Touch has been released. I must say that I was probably one of the first people to download the full public release, not the beta version.
While this is the first version of the public release, it is not without problems. I think this is expected at this point. It took quite some time for the NES emulator to run as smoothly as it does now and there are still even minor problems with it.
I have been playing around with it for a few days now and have tested a good amount of SNES ROMs. Some of these roms work great, while others are barely playable. I would expect to see this improved with every new update.
Apple has just released a new iPod Touch with 32gb of storage! It doesn’t look like anything has been changed but the storage capacity. If you look on Apple’s site they are currently advertising it along with the 8 gb and the 16 gb. It looks like for the time being there will be three iPod Touch models to choose from. In other apple product news they also released a 16 gb iPhone model. The iPod Touch 32gb and iPhone 16gb will both sell for $499.
