iPhone SDK Event: Games, Enterprise and Free Money*
- iPhone 2.0 Software available in June, Beta available now to selected developers and enterprise customers.
- iPhone 2.0 beta includes iPhone Software Development Kit and new enterprise features, including support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, providing secure, over-the-air push email, contacts, calendars and remote wipe as well as Cisco IPsec VPN for encrypted access to private corporate networks.
- iPhone SDK provides API for developers to create applications for both the iPhone and iPod Touch.
- Anyone can download iPhone SDK beta for free and run the iPhone Simulator on their Mac.
- SDK allows developers to make native iPhone apps.
- iPhone 2.0 software release will contain the App Store, letting users browse, search and purchase third party applications wirelessly to their iPod Touch or iPhone.
- Developers set their price and retain 70 percent of all sales revenues.
- Developers can make free apps as well - free to developer and user.
- Apple will handle all the hosting, infrastructure, web hosting, credit card and DRM (yuck) stuff with the Apple Store.
- Apple must approve applications first and they will only be available in the App Store.
- $100 Million iFund started to invest in Application developers.
- Spore is coming to the iPhone as well as another space-shooter, both use the accelerometer.
Quite a bit of stuff so I tried to get what was important. Check out live coverage by Engadget and Techcrunch if you like wading through all the info.
*made up the free money thing to get your attention
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