Apple opens iPhone software to outside developers
Mar 8th, 2008 by anim
LOS ANGELES: Apple is opening its iPhone software to outside developers in an effort to make the hot devices even more popular and wrest market share from “smart phone” market king BlackBerry.
Apple executives unveiled an iPhone software development kit created to let programmers craft programmes for the touch-screen mobile devices combining telephone, video, music, and Internet connectivity.
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said it wasn’t unfettering iPhones completely and that software creations would be vetted before being made available exclusively at a newly-launched online App Store.
“We think this is going to be a boon for developers,” Jobs said during an invitation-only preview of the kit at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California.
“Hopefully, people will think iPhones are even more valuable and buy more of them. This is not an open source project, it is a for-profit project.”
Renowned Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, joined Jobs to announce that his company started an “iFund” to finance entrepreneurs developing programmes for the iPhone platform.
“Today we are witnessing history; the launch of the SDK for iPhone,” Doerr said.
“New platforms are very rare but they can be transformational.”
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