Third party apps for the iPhone
This is quite exciting news from the Herald Tribune, just as the iPhone is set to hit UK shelves on November 9th, just two weeks after the Release of the new OS X ‘Leopard’ (Oct 26th) personally I want one, even though there’s a long list of reasons why I shouldn’t (mainly no 3G and a poor camera resolution.) BUT the ability to either run OR develop third party apps would open up countless possibilities.
Personally I envisage iPhone developer tools to be something along the lines of Dashcode which “is everything you need to create great Dashboard widgets.” approach from Apple, as this about turn on third party apps seems to be forced on them rather than a strategy from the start. I can see them offering a low level Widget develpment path, rather than hardcore application development, but we’ll have to wait and see.