Thread: iPhone and iPod Touch SDK is amazing... Wow.
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Rebski is offline Rebski
2008-03-12 , 17:17
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No, that equates to 100,000 people with Macs
And/or 100,000 iphone owners

Also this article leads us to a thought that maybe some of the people are getting the SDK for the new beta 2.0(1.2) firmware...
I am not an Apple or iPhone owner but the more that becomes revealed about this the more the "amazing... Wow" title of the thread is justified.

Does this give the iPhone, to all practical intents and purposes, the capability equivalent to Open Source.

Obviously Apple couldn't give a rat's elbow about potential competition from Nokia, but maybe it has an eye over it's shoulder at the upcoming competition from the Intel MID's.

To quote this commentator
http://www.gottabemobile.com/Video+O...+M528+MID.aspx

"Something is happening behind Intel's Atom branding that's more than just silicon development. There's a software infrastructure building that is big, financially supported and not far removed from the way Apple are doing things with the iPhone. The control is there. The guidelines are there. The restricted hardware set is there. The ISV process seems to be both accessible and well controlled and with 150 people working on the Moblin core and distribution through partners like Canonical and Asianux who are also working on optimisations and UI, you know there's some big numbers involved."