Apple’s iPhone Event - Conclusions

Since this subject is as ancient as Rome, I will drop the introduction and get straight to the subject - what about the iPhone SDK? Apple's iPhone event just took place, and everyone started to check the conclusions, so here they are...


We'll surely hear about all today's little iPhone-related events a long time from now on, so I won't get into details. There's plenty of time to do that in the future. For now, let's simply browse the main topics Apple people talked about in their SDK Roadmap event, shall we?

First, there's some good news for entrepreneurial developers - venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers announced a $100 million "iFund" for them, and if you want to know more about it, go here.

Next, it's Apple - of course. They just revealed their App Store, accessible via the iPhone and iPod touch, as well as from the iTunes store. Apart from the above, there's no need to add that the SDK was - finally - released. For us, end users, the most important part arrives as soon as we start seeing the first applications build by third parties using this SDK, and that's not going to happen in a day or two...

At last, Apple took a big step in the enterprise area, allowing its iPhone to synchronize mail, contacts, and calendar, directly with Microsoft Exchange servers. That's it for now, but be sure to subscribe to our news by email to get more as soon as we post here...