iPhone SDK Could Fracture Development Community (news/software/iphone-sdk-could-fracture-development-community-20080311454)
March 11, 2008
The recently announced iPhone SDK is still in beta, with the full version expected sometime in June, almost one year since the release of the iPhone. The June relase of iPhone Software Update 2.0
will allow the iPhone to run a myriad of third party applications (forum/third-party-applications) that will be released as a result of the iPhone SDK. With the dust settling from last week's announcement (news/software/apple-introduces-iphone-developer-program-20080306452), many in the blogosphere are concerned over the limitations of the iPhone SDK, with the limitations perhaps leading to a development community to split in two, one catering to the jailbreak community and the other offering Apple sanctioned apps.