Apple opens iPhone to 3rd party applications with an official SDK
We can’t believe it either — Apple is finally letting us in on their secret iPhone sauce! They’re still figuring out how to actually go about this, since mobile threats like viruses, malware, and other nasty things might target the iPhone. Steve Jobs actually drops a Nokia compliment, saying how their digitally signed 3rd party apps make it easy to protect end-users from these types of attacks since the developers have a proven track record. Yes the SDK will also work for the iPod Touch. We’re looking at February here, so let’s get to building that time machine!
Jonathan S. Geller
Jonathan Geller is the founder of Boy Genius Report, now known as BGR. What began as a column on popular gadget blog Engadget quickly grew into one of the site’s biggest draws, and Jonathan soon detached the wildly popular column to create what has since become the biggest mobile news destination in the world.
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