"Macworld may be over, but for a group of developers the most important Apple news has yet to be unveiled: the much-anticipated iPhone software development kit (SDK)."
This article is discussing the creation of new iPhone applications that work with the existing web browser that's incorporated in the iPhone, several of them consisting of games such as, Memory, Tetris, and Mahjong. The article continues to discuss how the applications will be distributed, accessed, how the design team will earn their money, and software protection. After a free trial offer, downloads spiked, so the team enforced a $1.99 one-time download fee. The result was a dramatic slump in downloads. The team decided that losing a couple dollars per person was the best (and only) bet to stay ahead of the game and get their applications abroad.
Rest of the article can be found here:
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/01/26/iphone-apple-developers-tech-wire-cx_ew_0128iphone.html
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i think you can actually download stuff on iphone for free... iof you go to youtube.com and type in iphone downloads there are videos that gives instructions on how to do it..
With the iphone already charging people an arm and TWO legs, the one time fee of $1.99 for downloads does seem a bit ridiculous. As if Microsoft is not bleeding enough money from us aleady... Maybe they are looking for a little more revenue to fix that Vista disaster.
Unfortunately some of the 3rd party software for the iPhone can cause problems with your phone. Many people became eager to find new applications to run on their phones but 1) it can pottentially void the warranty with Apple, and 2) when updating your phone with iTunes, there have been several problems with phones having 3rd party applications.
There are several free web-based applications for the iPhone. I have many on my phone and they are very useful. They have tons on the apple website at
http://www.apple.com/webapps/
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