Well, after a few months of cat and mous-ing between Apple and 3rd party hackers, the chase is finally over. Almost…
Apple, on their "Hot News" page, has announced that they intend to launch an iPhone (and iPod touch, naturally) SDK by February of '08. This SDK will allow developers to basically continue doing what they've already been doing for the past two months.
Sounds great, right? Well, Apple says they will be using Nokia's "Developer Footprint" technology, or something along the lines of that, to ensure the nipping of malicious apps in the bud. This probably explains the 4 month wait for this system to go live.
Honestly, this comes as a sort of unexpected move from Apple. At WWDC, His Steveness said that the Web 2.0 "SDK" would be launched with the iPhone; but more was to come. However, with recent iPhone lockings and brickings, one could only assume that Apple was against 3rd party development. While I am overjoyed at this decision, I don't think this extensive malware blocking is required on Apple's part; just let development continue just as it has been.
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