NEWS: Apple opens up iPhone to app developers
- From: John Navas <spamfilter1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:35:12 GMT
<http://www.theregister.com/2007/10/17/iphone_sdk/>:
The iPhone and iTouch are to get a Software Developers Kit in
February next year, allowing developers to create proper native
applications for the platform and allowing it to properly compete
with other smart phones, Steve Jobs announced on the company's
website today.
...
But in announcing the glad tidings he noted that Nokia will only
allow apps to be loaded onto its newer phones if they have a digital
signature that can be traced to a known developer. This, says Steve,
makes Nokia's devices "...less than totally open". But "we believe
[this] is a step in the right direction."
Quite how Apple intends to secure its devices without resorting to a
similar signing scheme we don't know, though talk of "an advanced
system which will offer developers broad access to natively program
the iPhone?s amazing software platform while at the same time
protecting users from malicious programs" would seem to indicate a
layered security protocol, with some form of sandboxing, and Apple
oversight on deployed applications.
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