I think this is great news, although it does raise the issue of virus and trojan activity. I don’t know anything about the architecture of the iPhone, but I assume it is not safe to say that it is secure. This much is obvious already, when you look at how many hacks are available already.

I guess the first native application we’ll all buy is some kind of anti-virus suite.

In the UK, the iPhone isn’t available for a few more weeks, but I’m going to get one when it launches here.

You’re kidding right? I think you’ve fallen prey to the blatantly anti-Apple propaganda that windows advocates have been shoveling out far and wide since the day the iPhone was announced.

Clearly Apple has long planned to release a phone SDK since the very first day they announced the phone.

The reason they didnt’ announce it then is because the iPhone is running Leopard… it depends on key Leapard functionality (such as core animation / layerkit) and there’s no point in announcing an SDK that you cant’ ship right away because the underlying operating system is still in development.

The whole idea that Apple wasn’t going to give an iPhone SDK is purely the imagination of desperate apple bashers who have been coming up with all kinds of reasons to bash this product since it was announced– including the claim that it was too expensive, then the claim that it was desperation that caused apple to drop the price, then the claim that apple really screwed over its customers by dropping the price, etc. etc.

The Safari platform was already there. The iPhone SDK is going to obviously take more time. Its only the shrill screaming from desperate microsoft sycophants that has caused apple to pre-announce the SDK. Normally, Apple would have just announced it at MacWorld in January– obvioulsy that was the plan given the february ship time.

So the change is, they’ve started bending to the screaming from the uninformed apple bashers, and that’s not a good thing.

“The whole idea that Apple wasn’t going to give an iPhone SDK is purely the imagination of desperate apple bashers”

uh, no.

Didn’t Steve Jobs say there that there was not going to be an SDK a few months ago? And as for “the shrill screaming from desperate microsoft sycophants”, that’s music to the ears of Apple; Customers wanting something Apple (publicly) was not prepared to give them, was not.

is “shrill screaming from desperate microsoft sycophants” on iTunes yet? I want it!

No, Apple never said there would never be an Phoen SDK.

That’s just propaganda from Apple bashers.

Joe - When the iPhone was announced, Jobs said that third party apps would be limited to Safari and there would be no SDK. His words, not mine. (I went digging for the original text of the intro; closest I found was: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fast-and-furious/no-iphone-sdk-means-no-iphone-killer-apps-267899.php)