Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 12th Jun 2007 01:16 UTC
When Steve Jobs mentioned a few weeks ago that there will be "some sort of app development" for the iPhone, everyone assumed he meant widgets. Widgets are less powerful than native applications, and depending on the underlying OS hooks offered, they can be even less powerful than J2ME apps. But when Jobs came out today to outright sell us Web 2.0 and said that "no SDK required", I felt cheated.
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Maybe. But users want applications. You highly disregard this.
I suggest you go read my archives of my blog. There, you will find information about my brother, an honest working electrician, who shun away the Linux touchscreen "wow-your-friends" cellphone I sent him last year because it wouldn't run any third party native apps (Motorola wouldn't release their SDK). Additionally, my brother can not afford to pay for GPRS and doesn't have WiFi at home (DSL is very expensive in Greece). In that respect, the iPhone is a worse phone for him than the Motorola Linux one was, as the iPhone can't even run J2ME, let alone native apps or Widgets.
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I would buy one in a heartbeat if it had a decent SDK.
Not that I would program anything for it, but because I know that other people would.
I think the iPhone has wifi, not just internet though your phone company, but though starbucks or your house or whatever. If there were a decent SDK someone would integrate Skype or something with it so you could have free phone while you're at home. Or think of the games / multimedia.
I could imagine XBMC running on that phone streaming mp3s or movies from your fileserver.
I really think Apple is missing something here. I've known people to buy an Xbox and do nothing with it except use it for homebrew applications like XBMC which is made using an illegal copy of the XDK.
If apple came out with a real SDK for the phone I'm sure other "gotta have it" software would emerge. Apple needs to open their eyes. I hope they're getting paid real well by the wireless providers to not release an SDK so that dumbass customers will pay $3 for a ringtone or $5 for a tetris game.