Apple used to be famous for keeping its products bery secret until the official launch. However, lately that have not been doing suck a good job. Most of this un approved publicity is from case designs released onto the web.
Apple is known to have special events around a year apart from each other and releasing “refreshed” products in their current line up and occasionally releasing a brand new device for the market.
Apple is now preparing significant changes to the iPod Nano, Classic and iPod Touch lines. Now there is speculation of an updated nano that is lower in price. This is bring down Apple’s profit margin but it will hope to maintain or improve on growing iPod sales shares.
Yes you read correctly Adobe has officially made comments about bringing flash to the iPhone and iPod Touch. They have said they have downloaded the SDK and found a plausible way to deliver this into the devices.
Today at 10:00 am as promised Steve Jobs took the stage at Town Hall on the Apple Campus. He has announced some amazing new features as well as a BETA version of the SDK (downloadable from Apples website). More info, details and apps after the jump.
Many social sites are planning on making native apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch. MySpace is said to already have a beta version of the SDK, and are in route to making an official app.
Apple being the enterprise they are, are planning to heavily moderate the apps that will be available for download via iTunes. The whole point of an SDK is for third party developers to put their apps on devices. With Apple’s SDK, Apple wants complete control of what Apps make it onto the iPhone and iPod Touch and complete control of all of the iTunes distribution.
Apple has now sent out invitations for an event next Thursday morning regarding the SDK announcement. At the event Steve Jobs is going to show how the SDK can be used for business and personal use, and a demo of the process.
We are nearing the end of February and are definitely towards “the last week of February”. This means if the SDK is on time is will come out in less than 10 days.
Recently Apple has not been so nice to all of their early adapters and see them as just another way to make a few bucks. This started at the “Beat Goes On” Keynote in late 2007. Here they announced the $200 dollar price drop for the iPhone and left many people unhappy.
This continued at Macworld 2008 with the announcement of iPhone apps on the iPod Touch. The apps will of course be preinstalled BUT all of the people who had been there from the start will be slapped with a $20 fee to install the apps for themselves.
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