No Third Party iPhone SDK

[Ashley Aitken]

On 14/01/2007, at 1:23 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

> On Jan 13, 2007, at 2:49 AM, Nils Holland wrote:
>
>> I don't get it why Steve had to explicitly announce that this  
>> thing supports Cocoa and all that stuff.
>
> I think this is a key point and what has spurred much of the  
> speculation about third-party app support.

Yes, but I think it is relatively clear:

1.  Steve wanted to make it clear that this wasn't some new and  
limited "smart phone" API but the same API that is used to create  
desktop apps - real apps not limited "smart phone" apps - on Mac OS X.

2.  Although, some people (in the community) have been saying "no  
third party apps,"  and we don't know the details or process yet, it  
is clear there are going to be third party apps (controlled by Apple  
etc).

Both of these points being very significant for a "smart phone".

Cheers,
Ashley.

PS I know "technically" some people will say this is not a smart  
phone because you can't write your own apps and install them, and  
that's probably true, this is a new category of phone, like games  
machines were a new category of computer.  You can't just write your  
own games and sell/install them on XBox (can you?).