Comments on: iPhone SDK News

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:50:01 +0000

What!? Volunteers have to pay 99 dollars just to give away their software, on which they spent hours and hours coding and for which they don’t expect anything in return, for free to the masses? How’s that going to stimulate the programming community? I bet most people (both users and developers) will stick with the jailbreak thing if it goes on like that. Sheesh.

I think the people who will offer free software will also have paid software available, and will need an account for that purpose. I do wish that the developers wouldn't have to pay if they were offering the programs for free, but I think it's because Apple is going to manually review each release for each application that is submitted.

By: Pieter

Pieter — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:41:30 +0000

What!? Volunteers have to pay 99 dollars just to give away their software, on which they spent hours and hours coding and for which they don’t expect anything in return, for free to the masses? How’s that going to stimulate the programming community? I bet most people (both users and developers) will stick with the jailbreak thing if it goes on like that. Sheesh.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:15:10 +0000

Amak wrote:

SDK is free….but it costs to publish the app? They’re contradicting each other.

That way developers can play around with it without really making a commitment.

motang wrote:

Looks like games will be coming to the iPhone, I guess that is how Apple will creep into the gaming market. Lets hope the games will be better served than the iPod games.

The games that they demoed sure look pretty sweet, and I would say that we’ll see great games coming out of this.

Andrew wrote:

So Apple is going to charge developers to be able to publish apps for my ipod touch, and they’re going to charge me to have the ability to use those apps.

Apple is going to charge you to use the apps unless the developers set a price on it.

Andrew wrote:

Will the “gurus” at Cybernet News be shelling out cash for the SDK?

We can get the SDK for free, but we’ll only have to pay if we want to publish an application. I’m not sure if we’ve got an application we want to develop yet.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:06:32 +0000

Will the “gurus” at Cybernet News be shelling out cash for the SDK?

By: Bamboo

Bamboo — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:02:45 +0000

“but I’m tired of giving them more and more money to get the functionality I expected when I dished out the first $400.”

Like a bunch of babies.
You bought a product with a ton of functionality out of the box, and yet you expect even more for free? If you can’t stand to pay $10 for such a big add on, then sell your Touch and go buy a zune, see how long your love for that lasts.

By: Change

Change — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:20:16 +0000

I hope that means the next iPhone will come out in June as well. I’d like to buy one, but I’m waiting for GPS (and possibly UMTS/HSDPA) support.

By: Google

Google — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:08:48 +0000

Depressing….Androids lookin’ reel good now.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:33:06 +0000

So Apple is going to charge developers to be able to publish apps for my ipod touch, and they’re going to charge me to have the ability to use those apps. I suppose that’s great for business, but it doesn’t really help with my feelings about Apple as a company. They make good products, but I’m tired of giving them more and more money to get the functionality I expected when I dished out the first $400.

Max is right. Jailbreak is starting to look more attractive all the time.

By: motang

motang — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:31:34 +0000

Looks like games will be coming to the iPhone, I guess that is how Apple will creep into the gaming market. Lets hope the games will be better served than the iPod games.

By: Amak

Amak — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:28:28 +0000

SDK is free….but it costs to publish the app? They’re contradicting each other.