Apple launches iPhone Dev Center for Web-based apps
By Colleen Taylor, Contributing Editor -- EDN, October 26, 2007
Aiming to help software developers looking to make their own applications for the iPhone, Apple Inc. launched this week the iPhone Dev Center as a new addition to its Developer Connection Web site.
The Dev Center, which opened on Wednesday, is aimed at making it easier for software developers to make third-party Web applications for the iPhone handset that can also run on the iPod Touch. The site offers development guidelines, advice, sample code, and videos of tech talks with Apple's iPhone engineers. Once applications are ready, developers can submit them for possible listing in Apple's Web apps library.
The site launched this week is meant to placate developers that have already "unlocked" the iPhone's tight security to develop third-party applications. Up until the Dev Center debuted, the iPhone was only officially meant to run native applications. Apple's CEO Steve Jobs said last week that a full software development kit (SDK), which would allow software designers to make non-Web-based applications that can run on- or off-line, will not be available until February.
In Apple's Q3 results posted this week, the company said it has shipped 1,389,000 iPhones since the handset made its market debut in June.
For more on the iPhone, see:
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The EDN guide to the Apple iPhone
