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Apple announces iPhone SDK

Apple today gave details on its iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit). You can read more about it on AppleInsider. What I'm going to focus on is our iPhone apps and how this affects them.

Firstly, our offline apps will be replaced by SDK applications. They haven't been updated in a while and they are slow, so it makes sense to do this.

The standard (non-iPhone) web apps will stay. The iPhone web apps will probably stay too, as they don't need much extra work.

Applications will be delivered via iTunes, and will remain free.

None of this will happen until the iPhone 2.0 firmware is released in June. Note that Apple is limiting it to the US at first but will gradually roll it out to other countries.