This morning the subject in the Infurious chat swayed to the iPhone and the new possibilities with the SDK being available in February.
The SDK will enable applications to be written for both iPhone and iPod touch. This has different implications for applications wanting to take advantage of the New World Order.
Thinking of applications which are useful in terms of:
- Closeness
- The “computer” will be with the individual 24×7.
- It will wake them in the morning and lull them to sleep at night
- they will carry it in their pocket. everywhere.
- they will have access to it in their car
- they will be able to hear it everywhere, wired or wireless
- storage is limited but still large
- Information input/output
- Normal screen or widescreen
- multitouch pinch, tap
- inertial sensors, light sensors
- GPS-type coordinates from cell towers
- Contextual data from WiFi points
- Make use of PUSH as well as pull
- It has a microphone and speakers!
- and a screen
- and it vibrates…
- Apple Seal of Approval
- You wanna bet that’s going to be free?
- This means executing well-defined, well-made applications.
- Buggy apps are going to be killed in this ecosystem.
The conversations have started but from the above I’m guessing we’ll see free apps being “limited” to Web-apps and commercial apps getting the limelight. Unless of course, you fancy hacking it?
[Fraser Speirs agrees with some of this]