Apple recently released an update that allows web-apps to be more fully integrated unto the iPhone/iPod Touch. They have removed the obnoxious “web-bar” from the top and allowed an integrated bottom tool bar that doesn’t move when you scroll. Good move by Apple as this will surely boost App development since building a web app can be done in a graphical user interface while building .api(s) does take a considerable amount of manual Objective-C programming. But the biggest change this brings is the dis-intermediation of the Apple filter which rejects a huge percentage of offline applications.
Toshiba has announced its creation of 64GB chips. Since the iPhone only has one storage slot as opposed to the iPod Touch’s two slots, we will probably see 64GB iPhones and 128GB iPod Touches in the near future.
The World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) is rumored to take place on either June 28th or July 2nd.
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As most of you already know, Apple will be releasing the new iPhone and iPod Touch OS this summer, 3.0!! It is amazing! With hundreds of additional adjustments and new add-ons, Apple will only fortify its already solid position as the owner of the worlds best hand-held operating system. The new SDK will allow for enormous strides to be made in the App world (including P2P)!
However, do not succumb to “Itchy Update Fingers” as The Dev Team terms it. What they mean is not to update the second it is released. It will be free to all 3G owners and will cost iPod Touch Owners another $9.99 or so. Although they are easily Jailbreakable, make sure you acquire the necessary update first.
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Wait for a PwnageTool release that creates a custom IPSW that avoids the baseband update that 3.0 will try to force upon your device.
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For those of you who don’t know what the NDA is, it is an agreement between Apple and programmers using the SDK. It states that programmers can’t share code with other programmers (Non Disclosure Act). For gamers, this might not seem like a problem. You can still play the games and use apps to your hearts’ content. The apps are good enough for you because you don’t know any better.
Not Anymore.
With the NDA lifted, code will be able to be shared between developers. Imagine having only your own ideas (or code) that you would have to work with to create an app. It could be focusing on only one mind, having only one viewpoint for imputing code. With this lifted, developers can compare different code between themselves, therefore making apps have more diversity. To read more about this subject, go to this link here which describes the problems of the NDA (in the past) and what is going to happen now (mostly for developers).
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)…
Source: iLounge
