Third party iPhone apps

[Ashley Aitken]

Hi Jesús (et al.),

On 12/04/2007, at 11:10 PM, Jesús Díaz Blanco wrote:

> Developer Miguel Sciaudone contacted Macworld UK to say: "This will  
> be an application running on the iPhone in summer. It's currently  
> in development and will soon be in Beta testing. It will not be a  
> Widget."
>
> http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm? 
> newsid=17735&pagtype=allchandate
>
> WTF?
>
> Free publicity stunt or real? My vote goes to the first. mmalc? any  
> other apple people there?

I'm a little confused, what are you surprised about here?

That there will be third-party apps solicited and approved by Apple?   
I think that has been pretty clear from the start  By not being open  
to third-party development, I think, most people understood that this  
only meant there wasn't going to be a public SDK.

Or that Apple would approve a tacky dating application?  I am a  
little surprised by this, but perhaps its their move into social  
networking applications, social networking the Apple way, not some  
business-focussed resume building LinkedIn.

Cheers,
Ashley.

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Ashley Aitken
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