macOS Will you be using the iPhone SDK ?

[The General]

It costs $99 to be able to test your app on the iPhone directly, and that program isn't even available yet.

No it doesn't ... it costs $99 to get your programs in the App Store.

 

[kainjow]

No it doesn't ... it costs $99 to get your programs in the App Store.

From iPhone Developer Program Details:

The iPhone Developer Program provides you with the ability to develop directly on iPhone or iPod touch. Build, test, and optimize your application to get the best performance possible, exactly as your customers will experience it.

Downloading the SDK is not the same as being part of the iPhone Developer Program.

 

[Mantat]

I am from Canada too, I managed to download the SDK and register BUT I am not able to install the SDK. When I try to mount the image, I get this error:

iphone_SDK.dmg Codec overrun

what is that?

Anyone from Canada managed to install it? I dont want to spend another 2gig of bandwidth for nothing...

I just wasted another 2gig of bandwidth... I am still getting the same error!!! GRrrr!

 

[The General]

From iPhone Developer Program Details:



Downloading the SDK is not the same as being part of the iPhone Developer Program.

That sucks. My bad.

 

[panzerjedi]

After installing the SDK, does anyone find that their GUI run a bit laggy? I had XCode 3 installed previously and did not see this lag.

 

[gnasher729]

How did so many people get to use this pre-release, yet no real leaks about feature set? Apple has very powerful attorneys...

That has nothing to do with "powerful". The developers that they were invited signed an NDA. Now there are two conflicting thoughts in those developers: Thought one is "I want to be the dude who told the world and macrumors about the iPhone SDK". Thought two is "Telling the world about the iPhone SDK is abusing Apple's trust, it is deeply unprofessional, it is lame, it will cost me my well-paying job and get me a resumé where my employer states that I was fired on the spot for violating an NDA, which will not help with my future career at all, it will exclude my company forever from a possible source of making major amounts of money, my colleagues will all hate me".

Once people have grown up, Thought #2 is much much stronger.

 

[Thomas Harte]

No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Published APIs and builtin interpreter(s) [...] An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise.

Hmmm. I can understand them wanting to outlaw emulators (as they're often of unclear legality) and interpreters that effectively side step the AppStore (bringing security risks and reducing Apple revenue), but this surely bars a whole bunch of games? I think it's relatively rare nowadays that developers, especially commercial ones, hardcode that much...

 

[wrldwzrd89]

I intend to look at it, but since I'm primarily a Java person, and don't fully understand how to develop in Cocoa (though I'd love to learn) I might have to wait until I understand how to do that first.

 

[simon-says]

Nope, I seriously doubt it at all. As a student paying another $99 a year, plus having to buy an Intel mac is just too much for me. My Powerbook is still under AppleCare, ridiculous for me to spend that kind of money on a new machine in under 3 years. Getting screwed with the last gen PowerPC chips again!

 

[cupofjoe]

I just wasted another 2gig of bandwidth... I am still getting the same error!!! GRrrr!

You on an Intel Mac? 10.5?

 

[admanimal]

Has anyone that has tried to sign up for the iPhone Dev Program (i.e. pay the $99) actually gotten anything beyond a message saying their info was being processed?

 

[Mantat]

You on an Intel Mac? 10.5?

Yes, Mac Pro 10.5.2

I am going to try another download now and see what happens

 

[kainjow]

Has anyone that has tried to sign up for the iPhone Dev Program (i.e. pay the $99) actually gotten anything beyond a message saying their info was being processed?

I haven't gotten anything either. Not even a confirmation email.

 

[dborja]

I haven't gotten anything either. Not even a confirmation email.

Same here. At least we have XCode 3.1 to keep us busy...