Mar 12th 2008
MacBreak Weekly 80
The 30 Percent Solution
The iPhone SDK announcement, including Exchange, ActiveSync, $100M iFund, games, IM, and more...
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- Apple had a little announcement (and none of us were invited)
- The iPhone got a little enterprise-booster, with Microsoft Activesync, VPN (including Cisco IPSec), other corporate security features and even direct Microsoft Exchange support (and "you're email doesn't go through Canada": cough, Blackberry, cough)
- iPhone gets pushed as a big gaming platform, even EA's Spore will be on the iPhone
- iPhone SDK is released (with more than 100,000 downloads already). Developers have to pay $99 to join the dev program, and free apps are hosted for free, Apple takes a 30% cut of revenue on paid apps. Apps will be available (only) via the on-iPhone app store, coming as part of the iPhone 2.0 software update in june.
- Kleiner Perkins (KMBC), venture capital firm, is launching a $100000000 iFund for iPhone developers
- AIM will be on the iPhone
- TSA cannot believe the Macbook Air is a real laptop ("It has some lines where the drive should be!", and "Where are the ports on the back!")
- Steven Levy may have Recyled his Macbook Air with a copy of NYT
- Picks:
- Lightroom Plug-ins for Zenfolio, SmugMug and Flickr Export-for Free from Leo
- UltraLigua, a great online dictionary and translator, including iPhone support-$29.95 from Scott Bourne
- A free Audiobook! A study in Emerald-For Free from Andy Ihnatko
- Marathon! The original Bungie Game, now open source, available for Mac, Linux and Windows: a Marathon MBW tournament is in the works-For Free from Alex Lindsay
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