iPhone apps are coming
Anyone with an iPhone or iPod Touch is sitting very comfortably after today’s announcements. Apple revealed its software developer kit (SDK) and showed off demos of enterprise software and videogames which had been built in only two weeks. There are two sides to this - the developers’ and the users’ - but both perspectives look extremely rosy.
I’ve never made an application for the Mac, but I was extremely impressed by the tools that they’re offering with the SDK. They’ve made it incredibly easy to build programs and then test them right away. People are going to want to make applications for the iPhone and iPod regardless of how easy it is, but I never anticipated them making it this accessible.
As a consumer, the announcements are also of great interest. The easy and speed with which programs can be developed means that all of the applications that we’d like will likely be up and running very quickly. By the time the software update comes in June, you can bet that many of the ‘wanted list’ will be ready. Games also featured heavily in the presentation and you can bet that this is one area that’ll really take off.
I bought a 32GB iPod Touch a few weeks ago and although it cost a lot of money, I thought it would be worth it in the long run. Now I know for sure.