The iPhone undoubtedly has the potential to make some significant inroads into a number of different areas of communication and information technology. This is evident in the wide array of features and capabilities built into the unit, specially its Internet connectivity and emailing features.
It is somewhat surprising to note that in spite of all this potential, certain sectors, mostly the corporate users have been somewhat slow to embrace the iPhone as a viable communications and information exchange device.
Some of this hesitation has to do with security issues on the part of the iPhone. Another can be the touch screen user interface which may befuddle users who are used to the more traditional QWERTY keyboard interface. To put it straight, the ultimately reason in the lack of widespread acceptance of the iPhone is the glaring absence of 3rd party applications written by its software developers.
All that is about to change however, judging from a recent announcement by Apple head honcho Steve Jobs that the company would be releasing the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) to 3rd party software developers in February of 2008. This comes as a much welcome bit of news, not only to
Let’s face it: very few of us have the patience to deal with learning yet another suite of programs when we have already invested a significant amount of time learning the programs that we use on a regular basis. With the release of the iPhone SDK you may soon be able to see a host of applications for the iPhone that not only offer added functionality and features, but may also offer a user interface that is quite familiar to you as well.
In answer to some of the questions that have been raised about the long release date of the SDK, Jobs explains that while Apple is eager to provide an open iPhone platform for developers, these efforts go hand in hand with ensuring that the iPhone is as secure from malicious elements as possible, whether they are viruses or hacker attacks. The February release date will allow Apple ample time to ensure that necessary security measures are implemented when it comes time to release the SDK.
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I was really unaware that alot of the business type people were not using some of the phones features. But after reading what you wrote I can understand why they would be hesitate to use them. I think that the solution they are releasing in February will provide some extra security and you will see them start using all the capabilities of the iPhone more. Very interesting article, thanks.