Yesterday Steve Jobs officially released the Software Developer Kit for the iPhone. US American developers can register here (link) [1] in order to be officially allowed to develop for the iPhone. Sofar for the good news. The bad news as follows:
- the iPhone Developer Programme is currently available only in the US and A
- it costs 99USD (standard programme) to 299USD (enterprise programme)
- Software to be uploaded to the iPhone via iTunes (via App Store)
- 70% of the price of an App will be given to the Devs, 30% will be kept by Apple for being so nice to having built the App Store – well thanks Steve that’s really what we’ve been waiting for: another business model adopted from the works of a supporting community, thanks a lot…
- 3rd party Software to be released beginning in june 2008
And finally: a new iPhone firmware 2.0 will be also released in june 2008. Well, well. I really like my App-Tab Installer and I really hope, it will survive. By the way there are rumors that the Developer Kit has already been leaked to file-sharing networks on the day it has been released (means yesterday)…