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.
While Apple were busy offering the US the iPod Touch, elsewhere around the globe people are still waiting for the iPhone - today, Jobs & co gave people in the UK good news and bad about their version of the coveted handset, which is set to launch, exclusively to carrier O2, on 9th November. It was a pretty short event in all - which our man with the frequent flyer miles, Vincent Nguyen, went specially to London for - but most of the big questions were touched upon (if not, in some frustrating cases, answered). So we know that come 9th November UK customers will be able to buy an 8GB iPhone, identical to the US model, for £269 with an 18-month contract.
Visual Voicemail has been freshly fettled for O2, while the biggest disappointment is the lack of a 3G upgrade which Jobs claimed was due to the required chips being particularly power-hungry. To salve the pain, Apple and O2 have negotiated free WiFi use from popular hotspot company The Cloud, who have 7,500 access points ready and waiting to rescue you from the drag of EDGE data, which so far O2 only has 30% coverage of anyway.
In a Q&A session following the announcement, reporters put questions about unlocking, alternative carriers and that elusive 3G upgrade; you can see his responses in our videos from the event, but to summarise he was by turns cagey, flattering and dismissive! You’ll be able to pick up the iPhone at O2 stores, Apple stores and UK cellphone retailer Carphone Warehouse; as with the US launch they’ll be limiting it to two handsets per customer, but they’re also refusing to take cash.
In case you missed it, I attended the Apple Event on September 5th, you know, the one where the iPod Touch was announced, anyways, I was able to get some hands on time and some pretty good footage of the iPod Touch in action. There isn’t much more to say other than Action!
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