At the official SDK release/'roadmap' yesterday, we got much more than we had expected. As well as a large press release entailing the inner workings and functions of the SDK (a little over-complex to post), we got live demo's and the tantalising prospect of gaming on the iPhone. However, the story causing the most uproar at the moment is the announced release of Spore on the iPhone (September release date). The game was demoed, and alongside the other games on show (including Super Monkey Ball), Spore made good use of the technology available, using the accelerometer to manipulate the environment.
Further announcements included Enterprise apps and Apple's new Exchange server accomodation-
head over to Apple Insider for the complete story. There was also the announcement that Apple would be restricting VOIP (Voice Over IP) programs that use cellular networks, but would allow those that use Wi-Fi; an interesting prospect.
Native iPhone applications are to be downloaded direct from the iTunes store, and developers will receive a princely 70% of the revenue in monthly installments.
The SDK is available for developers to download now on the
Apple website (which is slow due to demand), including a nice iPhone software emulator to aid with the process. However, a $99 membership fee must be paid in order to post applications direct to the iTunes store. The full version (this is only a beta) will be released in June to all iPhone owners, although iPod Touch users must pay a premium.
Reading about this is great, but nothing beats watching Steve do his thing.
Head over to the Apple site for a peek.
For those interested in the minutae,
Mac Rumors broke down the SDK into four digestable sections:
Cocoa Touch - Multi-touch events, Multi-touch controls, Acceleromter, View Hierarchy, Localization, Alerts, Web View, People Picker, Image Picker, Camera
Media - Core Audio, OpenAL, Audio Mixing, Audio Recording, Video Playback, JPG, PNG, TIFF, PDS Quartz, Core Animation, Embedded OpenGL
Core Services - Collections, Address Book, Networking, File access, SQLite, Core Location, Net Services Threading, Preferences, URL utilities
Core OS - OS X Kernel, BSD TCP/IP, Sockets, Power Management, Keychain, Certificates, File System, Lib System, Security, Bonjour
Written by Will on March 7th, 2008 with no comments.
Read more articles on 6th March and Apple and Developers and Event and Roadmap and SDK and Software Development Kit and Steve Jobs and iPhone and iPod Touch.
Go on, Apple, try and wiggle your way out of this one. With a concrete date of 6th March, Apple have now committed to a final release date for the SDK. The above invitation was circulated by Apple two days ago, officially inviting developers and those in the know to the event, taking place in the Apple town hall at Cupertino. If you were lucky enough to get an invite, leave a note. Do you know any more than we do?
Written by Will on February 28th, 2008 with no comments.
Read more articles on Apple and Cell phone and Event and Invitation and SDK and Technology and iPhone.
Over the next week or so, and Apple ‘event’ is rumoured to take place. Its purpose, unknown. Its whereabouts, secret. Its attendance, undisclosed. And yet, a couple of days ago, a little bit of the mystery surrounding this event was removed.
Mike Shinoda, lead singer of Linkin Park posted this on his blog two days ago (the important section is bold-i-fied:
“today, we won our second german “echo†award! for those of you in the US, this is the equivalent of the grammy. thanks germany!
in other news, we’re in the middle of the tour with coheed and cambria and chiodos. it’s going great—those guys put on a great show. looking forward to our first show at madison square garden this week (sold out)! also, look forward to a special show that we’re doing in NYC in conjunction with apple…shh…it’s a secret…”
So now we know a little more- the event is taking place in New York, and Apple have enlisted the band to give the show a little more. Its purpose still isn’t fully known, but the general consensus is that the event will be used to unveil the SDK (finally!) and possibly unveil the new Macbook Pro. Beyond these guesses, nobody knows. And that, my friends, is the joy of this game.
What do you think the purpose of this event is? And when is it happening?
Written by Will on February 20th, 2008 with no comments.
Read more articles on Apple and Event and February and Linkin Park and MacBook Pro and SDK and iPhone and iPod Touch.
Over the next week or so, and Apple 'event' is rumoured to take place. Its purpose, unknown. Its whereabouts, secret. Its attendance, undisclosed. And yet, a couple of days ago, a little bit of the mystery surrounding this event was removed.
Mike Shinoda, lead singer of Linkin Park posted this on his blog two days ago (the important section is
bold-i-fied:
"today, we won our second german “echo†award! for those of you in the US, this is the equivalent of the grammy. thanks germany!
in other news, we’re in the middle of the tour with coheed and cambria and chiodos. it’s going great—those guys put on a great show. looking forward to our first show at madison square garden this week (sold out)!
also, look forward to a special show that we’re doing in NYC in conjunction with apple…shh…it’s a secret..."
So now we know a little more- the event is taking place in New York, and Apple have enlisted the band to give the show a little more. Its purpose still isn't fully known, but the general consensus is that the event will be used to unveil the SDK (finally!) and possibly unveil the new Macbook Pro. Beyond these guesses, nobody knows. And that, my friends, is the joy of this game.
What do you think the purpose of this event is? And when is it happening?
Written by Will on February 20th, 2008 with no comments.
Read more articles on Apple and Event and February and Linkin Park and MacBook Pro and SDK and iPhone and iPod Touch.
The rumour sites are going crazy at the moment. Obviously not content with their share price falling, Apple have either deliberately leaked fake stories or are actually taking serious action over the next few weeks to combat the oncoming recession.
The newest rumour is that a $100 price drop on both iPhones and iPod Touch's will be occuring over the next 3 weeks. This, to me, sounds a little bit ridiculous, considering that the 16GB iPhone and 32 Gb iPod Touch were released only last week. Surely Apple must have learnt their lesson after last year's debacle, when the reaction forced Steve to offer $100 store credit to the iPhone's early adopters.
Perhaps not- the usually reliable
9to5mac are reporting this news, supposedly suggested by a reliable source. Further to this, the 8GB iPod Touch and iPhone will be discontinued... not likely- why would Apple cut their iPhone line down to just one high-priced model, when the lower priced version is most likely to achieve that '10 million by end of 2008' figure. Whether Apple pulls this off, without a negative reaction, will remain to be seen, but I'm going to step out here and say that this isn't going to happen. It makes no sense to cut prices a mere 3 weeks after a new release...
Written by Will on February 10th, 2008 with no comments.
Read more articles on 16 GB and 32 GB and Apple and Event and Prices and iPhone and iPod and iPod Touch and mp3 players and smartphone.
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