It’s all about the SDK baby!

I iPhone developer web site has tons of great information for developing iPhone applications. If you aren’t familiar with Mac development you’ll have to start by getting to know Objective-C and the Xcode IDE and Cocoa style development. To me the Objective-C syntax feels awkward and looks kinda goofy but it isn’t that bad. I’ve been reading lots of docs on the development web page and everything seems pretty straight forward.

The iPhone developer web site was pretty slow and sometimes un-responsive yesterday. Now I know why. I read on iPhoneNess that the SDK has been downloaded over 100K times since it was released a few days ago.

According to an article over on c/net voice over IP software like Skype will be blocked on the AT&T cellular network but will be usable when connected to a WiFi network. Also in the legal agreement for developers there is this clause:

“No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Published APIs and builtin interpreter(s)…An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise.”

So this rules out a Java VM, web browsers, Phython, PHP, etc. Are they doing this because of security concerns or because they want to block the competition?

Not only is the iPhone a great phone and PDA it also has the features and capability to be a great gaming platform. Innovate games will take full advantage of the OpenGL 3D graphics, networking capabilities, multi-touch input and accelerometers. Think Wii style control in a handheld device. The possibilities are limitless. According this this article over on Macword EA has already announced and shown off an iPhone specific version of Spore.