Apple's iPhone SDK Press Conference


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Looks like the delay was true: an invite for the launch of the iPhone SDK came in, and it's showing a Town Hall event on Cupertino campus on March 6th. The mail includes a reference to "some exciting new enterprise features" as well. Research In Motion should be as excited as we are. And yes, this is when Steve tells us TSFU. At last.

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Any idea if they're going to bring something like this to the UK, or is this going to be a strictly one time affair?

It's pretty much a special event. Whatever they talk about will probably be released throughout the Developer Connection.

they should release a flip phone

actually, they should release a thin flip phone to compete with the razr, but still retain all the cool touch controls etc...kind of innovate in the flip phone area would be nice...having wifi on a flip phone would be innovative as well

This better not involve an unlocking fee and a mandatory base line price for each application you want to install. This is Apple we're talking about after all, who makes early adopters pay for applications the newcomers get for free on their cheaper priced device.

I think people will be pretty peeved if that happens to be honest. Legimate ownership of an iPhone is already a wallet stretching experience for most people.. costs per applications, etc would just be getting ridiculous.

I'm absolutely dying for some kind of AIM client on my iPhone (without hacks that break upon every update) and a native version of Bejeweled 2. The web apps just flat suck. I'm afraid they are going to say it's not ready until WWDC though, which is I think why they called this a "Roadmap" event instead of some kind of release event.

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Coverage starts at the times below.

08:00AM - Hawaii

10:00AM - Pacific

11:00AM - Mountain

12:00PM - Central

01:00PM - Eastern

06:00PM - London

07:00PM - Paris

09:00PM - Moscow

03:00AM - Tokyo (March 7th)

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Engadget are following the press conference with live updates.

Not long now, everything is about to start.

BBC's iPlayer site now has a "Beta BBC iPlayer for iPhone" badge when navigated to with an iPhone (screenshot). Coincidentally appeared on the day of the SDK roadmap. Content is not yet playable on the iPhone.

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10:05AM - They want push contacts, global address list, Cisco IPsec VPN, they want authentication and certs, enterprise class WiFi (WPA2 / 802.1x), security policies, enterprise configuration tools, and they want remote wipe.

10:06AM - "That's a long list of important features enterprise customers want. Well, I'm excited to be the one to tell you today, we're doing ALL these things in the next release of the iPhone software." Big applause, couple of cheers.

10:07AM - "Our customers have asked us to build in MS Exchange right into the iPhone -- we have licensed ActiveSync for the iPhone." Daaamn!

That's pretty cool. At least Apple are happy to swallow their pride sometimes and just do what their customers want if the demand is there. Licensing ActiveSync is a great move - that'll really help with adoption in the enterprise.

10:05AM - They want push contacts, global address list, Cisco IPsec VPN, they want authentication and certs, enterprise class WiFi (WPA2 / 802.1x), security policies, enterprise configuration tools, and they want remote wipe.

10:06AM - "That's a long list of important features enterprise customers want. Well, I'm excited to be the one to tell you today, we're doing ALL these things in the next release of the iPhone software." Big applause, couple of cheers.

10:07AM - "Our customers have asked us to build in MS Exchange right into the iPhone -- we have licensed ActiveSync for the iPhone." Daaamn!

Hallelujah 802.1x.

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