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So big news today on Apple Hot News, here is the beginning of what’s announced:

Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.It will take until February to release an SDK because we’re trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once—provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc. 

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So tonight I found a great article on the MacObserver. John Martellaro is describing in a non geek way what is the equivalent of the latest Software update for the iPhone (1.1.1) and how it will translate in the car world.I think this is a good read and provide a good explanation on why Apple did warn users prior to the update, and why Apple at least now is not providing an SDK. I think an SDK will be coming (WWDC’08 ?) but Apple want to be sure that it will work on the iPhone nicely. It’s all about the experience and Apple want probably to show the example first.

Quite an interesting day yesterday where Steve Jobs did publish an open letter (see the text here). Clearly I think that Steve and Apple did not really evaluate well the customer impact on the price drop… which for me I read that sign as the fact that Apple has a really strong and vocal user based for their iPhone : a sign of success. Don’t you think that if the iPhone was a failure the price drop will have been making so much news? It shows that the iPhone owner care about their product and the user based is large, I was hoping that Steve will drop some real numbers on the total iPhones sold since july 1st Continue reading »

I came across this article from eWeek where ‘power users’ discuss the lack of the iPhone…First of all how do you define a Power User ?The folks they’re mentionning are may be known for what they created but why are they power users when compared to anyone else ?The only statement in the article that I agree with is about the lack of search in Mail… Continue reading »