Developing for the iPhone
I was intrigued by this article I saw at itWire: Write your own iPhone apps for fun and profit. Apparently, all it takes to program for the iPhone is to register as a developer with Apple and download the Apple iPhone Software Development Kit. Registration is free, and the SDK contains an iPhone emulator and all the necessary tools. The download itself is rather large, at over a gigabyte.
There seem to be two caveats:
- The SDK and tools run only on the Mac.
- You can test your programs on the emulator for free, but you need an Apple Developer program membership (which costs $99) if you want to run them on a real iPhone or sell them at the Apple iPhone Marketplace.
Both seem to be pretty reasonable restrictions. It sounds as if it is pretty easy to experiment with iPhone development, which I’m sure is exactly what Apple wants.
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