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iPhone SDK Delay? Another Touch Device?

Friday February 8, 2008 7:14 am PST by Arnold Kim
TUAW's Erica Sadun shows evidence of additional hardware support built into the iPhone's Mac OS X software. Amongst the "platforms" listed include the iPhone itself (M68), the iPod Touch (N45) and an unknown identifier N82

Platforms = (M68, N82, simulator);
Platforms = (N45);


Sadun also suggests that she has heard that the iPhone SDK may be delayed, though practically dismisses her own comments as a "rumor".

TUAW has traditionally not been a reliable source of rumors and are quick to wash their hands of their rumor reports by calling all rumors "unreliable". This is posted for interest only, but without the confidence of the original rumor reporter, it's difficult to take these reports too seriously.
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lofight
52 months ago
interesting, a mac tablet would be nice! if it has handy multi-touch feautures
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LeviG
52 months ago

interesting, a mac tablet would be nice! if it has handy multi-touch feautures


especially if it has a pressure sensitive pen and a decent size storage area although the air shows that apple are going wireless with everything now so likely you will need an external hd
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bbplayer5
52 months ago
Im getting pretty sick and tired of apple jerking everyone around. The iphone is underperforming software wise to EVERY phone on the market. It just has a great interface.

Get the SDK out already!
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ert3
52 months ago
Perhaps the extra device is the iPhone nano.

Tablet would be nice but then again its kinda hard to imagine how it would play out.

Perhaps there will be an invisible hardware upgrade in the near future or the leap to 3G is already being planned.
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Chrispy88
52 months ago

Im getting pretty sick and tired of apple jerking everyone around. The iphone is underperforming software wise to EVERY phone on the market. It just has a great interface.

Get the SDK out already!


Do you have an iPhone? I don't want to speak for anyone else, but I'd say the software on the iPhone is pretty great :)

Besides missing MMS (which is a huge deal, even though I don't use it), I'd say that the iPhone sets the bar pretty high!
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kornyboy
52 months ago
Eh. Don't really know what to think since it said the source has been ubreliable in the past. I hope they don't delay the iPhone SDK. I'm looking forward to some 3rd party apps that doesn't require a jail break to run.
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nxent
52 months ago
from a marketing point of view, companies such as apply try to have tiers in their product line (in terms of functionality). laptops: macbook air, macbook, macbook pro. desktops: mac mini, imac, mac pro. ipods: ipod shuffle, ipod nano, ipod classic. 'touchdevices': ipod touch, iphone, ???.... i think it may be a bit soon, but eventually i think apple will introduce an iphone/pda. not everyone with an iphone wants a pda (and hence, reason for not just 'adding' pda functionality to the iphone), but i'm willing to bet there are a fair number of folks willing to spend a little extra for a hybrid iphone/pda device- i'm one of them.

edit- i think the 'tablet' people speak of will be the pda. a full blown apple tablet won't happen for a while.
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twoodcc
52 months ago
i hope not. Apple needs to stop delaying and start coming thru for their customers
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bbplayer5
52 months ago

Do you have an iPhone? I don't want to speak for anyone else, but I'd say the software on the iPhone is pretty great :)

Besides missing MMS (which is a huge deal, even though I don't use it), I'd say that the iPhone sets the bar pretty high!


1. No MMS & No forwarding SMS - without jalibreak
2. No native chat without jailbreak (and they suck)
3. No GPS
4. No themes without jailbreak
5. Phone locked to 1 provider - Lame



Given their track record, Apple will neuter this SDK and not allow devs to do anything good.
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skemmuni
52 months ago

from a marketing point of view, companies such as apply try to have tiers in their product line (in terms of functionality). laptops: macbook air, macbook, macbook pro. desktops: mac mini, imac, mac pro. ipods: ipod shuffle, ipod nano, ipod classic. 'touchdevices': ipod touch, iphone, ???.... i think it may be a bit soon, but eventually i think apple will introduce an iphone/pda. not everyone with an iphone wants a pda (and hence, reason for not just 'adding' pda functionality to the iphone), but i'm willing to bet there are a fair number of folks willing to spend a little extra for a hybrid iphone/pda device- i'm one of them.

edit- i think the 'tablet' people speak of will be the pda. a full blown apple tablet won't happen for a while.


Sounds intressting!!
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