Finally….iPhone SDK
Back last year, I have bragged about the iPhone/iTouch SDK. Today, I have downloaded the iPhone SDK (that’s clocked in at 2.10 GIG !!!! ).
I have seen and experienced a lot of Web 2.0 applications that have been re-designed just for the iPhone (or iTouch). Twitter has made its debut with an iPhone version, and so is Google GMail.
Meebo has a iPhone interface that I have used religiously while chatting with my friends lazing on the couch !
Software development for the iPhone seems to get easier by the day. A tutorial by AkitaoRails has shown how easy it is to create Web Applications for Rails.
Software monoliths like IBM has even supported the iPhone openly, as you can read here.
Having read about the power given to developers through the SDK, I have a very enthusiastic feel about the potential of the iPhone in the corporate mobility market. The mobility market thus far only offers good email integration, and minor clunky integration with backend systems such as SAP.
IBM will perhaps spearhead this initiative, and the outcome of developing/integrating Lotus Notes with the iPhone will be interesting to watch!!! It will perhaps be a gauge-ometer for other competitors to assess the potential of the iPhone.
I won’t be waiting though. Being a Web 2.0 technologist, I will be toying around with this technology in the coming months, and see how far I can get with the iPhone.
Perhaps learning Objective-C (yet another language) is the biggest hurdle for me… It looks very similar to C, so should be quite fun !!!
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