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Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK

Derek Yu — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:39:00 +0000

At a town-hall meeting at Apple HQ in Cupertino, Steve Jobs and company announced the release of a free iPhone SDK for developers, as well as a $99 iPhone Developer’s Program that allows devs to publish their apps (both free and commercial) to iTunes. On top of that, venture capital company Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is investing $100 million dollars (Dr. Evil voice) to fund development of apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch. How that money gets divied up is anyone’s guess, but Apple made sure to point out that it’s 10 times more than what Google has in its coffers for Android devs.

This is all part of an announcement for iPhone 2.0, which is coming to customers in June, and has some nifty new “enterprise features.” But really, the important thing is that now indie game developers with Mac OSX can go apeshit on the iPhone! For details the new SDK, head over here (Gizmodo).

(Thanks, Phil!)

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by I should settle on a name

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:49:52 +0000

Yea 30% I can easily live with considering it’s hosted and distributed by Apple themselves. I just make it and send it to them and don’t have to deal with anything but updating the app.

Plus aren’t there 2 ways of getting apps? Using the store and transfering via USB, which would be great for getting the ahem rude applications.

… Like Skype and emulators.

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by JJ

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:38:25 +0000

Hooray for Steve Jobs. He is making everything a bit more affordable for us mere mortals!

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by fish

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:31:22 +0000

its an amazing deal.

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by Pyabo

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:48:30 +0000

I can’t get too excited about this… Apple is still tightly controlling the platform. And if you want your app distributed over their channel (the ONLY one non-hacked phones can use) they demand a 30% revenue share.

How loudly would all of you scream if Microsoft demanded a 30% cut from every Windows Mobile app written? Think about it.

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by PHeMoX

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:35:23 +0000

Lol, I know your pain… I want a Mac too, but if only they weren’t this damn expensive….

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by MattV

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:47:30 +0000

Now I want to get myself an iPhone and a Mac, expensive month.

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by Ryan O'Donnell

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:25:19 +0000

“or is *it* all over me?”

…gross :D

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by raigan

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:12:59 +0000

i don’t know.. ARM processor screams “nightmarish lack of floating-point” to me.

or maybe there’s a really great fixed-point lib everyone but me knows about?

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by fish

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:06:59 +0000

im all over that shit. all over.

or is *it* all over me?

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by Benzido

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:38:21 +0000

…if only you could actually download the SDK

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by I should settle on a name

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:17:13 +0000

Very happy with this. Should some some really interesting projects. It’s like a Wii and DS combined but secretly been out a year.

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by Fishy Boy

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:51:05 +0000

Really awesome. A company supporting homebrew for a change is always nice.

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by PoV

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:45:18 +0000

Apple even has getting started videos. Nice. Could be one of the best SDK launches I’ve seen.

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by Ryan O'Donnell

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:28:48 +0000

FezPhone confirmed!

…or maybe, iFez?

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by PHeMoX

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:23:06 +0000

What do you mean control scheme? Doesn’t the iPhone have a touch pad as well? What more could you want? If you really need arrows and buttons, you could even make them a ‘virtual’ button on the touch pad I guess….

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by Ok

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:12:24 +0000

Just get an ipod touch silly.

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by v-rus

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:09:52 +0000

apparently, you don’t even need an i-phone to make programs for it. Nice, eh?

I’m kinda worried about the control scheme, though. Can you plug an X-box controller into an i-phone? lol

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by GirlFlash

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:39:03 +0000

I would love to work on games for iPhone, but when the thing costs about the same as a ps3… yeah, screw that. :(

"Apple Announces Free iPhone SDK" by Lazer

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:21:57 +0000

Finally all of Phil Fish’s dreams for iphone can be realized.