{"id":1685,"date":"2008-03-07T11:20:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T15:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/07\/iphone-sdk\/"},"modified":"2008-03-08T12:21:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T16:21:24","slug":"iphone-sdk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/07\/iphone-sdk\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone SDK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, I like what Apple announced. I don&rsquo;t mean to take away anything from what looks like great work they&rsquo;ve done. However, I do want to point out that the spin was a bit much:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple is taking 30% for what amounts to a VersionTracker listing. This is an acceptable, if a bit stiff, deal for most developers. However, it&rsquo;s a much larger cut than Apple gets for music, and it seems to be more than what Apple would need just &ldquo;to pay for running the App Store,&rdquo; as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/quicktime\/qtv\/iphoneroadmap\/\">Jobs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/03\/06\/live-from-apples-iphone-press-conference\/\">said<\/a>. It&rsquo;s more like an access tax.<\/li>\n<li>Forstall said that Apple is opening up the &ldquo;same native APIs and tools that we use internally to build all our iPhone applications.&rdquo; More accurate would be to say that the SDK includes the subset of the APIs that Apple will allow developers to use. There are a bunch of very important things that Apple&rsquo;s built-in apps can do that will not be available to developers.<\/li>\n<li>Jobs&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/58128\/2007\/05\/steveatd.html\">previous statement<\/a> that the iPhone contained the entire OS, except for data such as desktop pictures and sound files, turned out to be a huge exaggeration. Lots of modern Mac APIs (that have nothing to do with the mouse or keyboard) are missing &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DericHorn\/statuses\/767729596\">to keep things slim<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As with the original <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/a-very-sweet-solution\/\">sweet SDK<\/a>, Apple has made entirely reasonable business and technical decisions, but they chose to spin them unnecessarily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, I like what Apple announced. I don&rsquo;t mean to take away anything from what looks like great work they&rsquo;ve done. However, I do want to point out that the spin was a bit much: Apple is taking 30% for what amounts to a VersionTracker listing. This is an acceptable, if a bit stiff, deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}