Comments on: SDK Release

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:40:01 +0000

Guys, wake up! I love my iPhone and I have dozens of wishes for hardware (3G, GPS, TV, FM radio, Weather sensors, Compass, Presentation laser, etc…) and software (Office, server, etc…) additions/improvements, some of which will never happen, but IMHO this totally wrong for one and only reason. Apple wants to CONTROL everything and they are about to get away with it!

It is all about CHOICE! Think about it, If we go OFFICIALLY, some of us end up loosing the deal of ‘what-we-want and what-we’ll-be-given-as-a-choice’ by the end of the day. The iPhone is not even available where I live and when they sell it here, it will be locked. I want an unlocked iPhone and I want a firmware update which won’t brick my phone and access to most of the apps without accounts and personal details. They are changing what we were taking most of the time for granted. IMO judging from what I show, we’ll have a rock solid iPhone, but for less freedom and privacy. Just consider this, did you know that in order to use the Cloud in London you have to provide your telephone number? Why? What about my privacy? Why won’t I be able to download an app from the developer’s site without registration?

Perhaps it’s just me, perhaps I worry to much, perhaps I’m wrong… nonetheless, it doesn’t feel right. I really hope that the hacker’s community will continue to provide me with (semi)functional solutions, because I intend to keep my well paid hardware unlocked.

By: James

James — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:18:39 +0000

How about 50cents?
Its pocket change and would seriously help the developer out.

By: Brooke

Brooke — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:26:09 +0000

Huh…very good idea…I will talk to Doug about that!

By: Rossicka

Rossicka — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:01:09 +0000

I like how the developers can make their own price. My suggestion would be to add a rating system for site viewers to rate apps that you guys might not review when/if they cost money…

By: Brooke

Brooke — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:07:23 +0000

No…we have not developed any apps that we could add to the SDK. It would be sweet if I knew how but, I don’t. I say we make Jacob figure it out!! Haha…sorry Jacob!

By: Brooke

Brooke — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:05:11 +0000

Great idea!! Though, Doug is out of the country at the moment…I will tell him when he gets back!

By: Brooke

Brooke — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:04:23 +0000

Haha you are right…they do look similar…so wrong!

By: Leo

Leo — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:03:55 +0000

So with this sdk development, will you guys (appleiphoneschool) be able to add these same applications to the iphone sdk and try to make a profit out of some of them?

By: weak_boy

weak_boy — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:49:46 +0000

“alex_dlc Says:
March 6th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

no charge for free apps! hahahaha would be weird if they charged for free apps”

i was laughing at that part too.
but for the developing part of the iphone. i hope installer would be on there for a totally free things. the only other thing i hope for is that, I hope that many of the
jailbreak developers or people who created apps for the iphone would spend time and make free apps and put it on the apple site. i have noticed that after installing and uninstalling multiple apps, that the iphone gets slightly unstable compared to a non-jailbroken phone. Things tend to run SLIGHTLY slower (sometimes things might lock up and/or crash.) then i have to restart my iphone from scratch. but my guess is maybe if you put it through the apple site, apple could finalize it as a Free app and and help fix all the stability issues.

so with the New SDK coming out, i hope some of you developers don’t turn your back on us and make us pay you for each app we want through the itunes store.
My iphone is my life, almost… hahaha

By: cartoon156

cartoon156 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:50:27 +0000

I really cannot wait for June. That’s where the iPhone really evolves.
I hope the jailbreak/unlock can work on 2.0. My friend is crying and worrying whether he can do this on his T-Mobile, haha…
For me, I am happy for this App Store, but it would be cool if I could get App Store AND Installer