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iPhone ‘not so open’ SDK?

October 18th, 2007

So Apple announced the availability of the iPhone SDK for February next year.

Seems to be a good news, but a few sentences makes me feel unconfortable: there is a big paragraph about virus, malware and so on :

“There have been serious viruses on other mobile phones already, including some that silently spread from phone to phone over the cell network.”

I don’t think that there are such virus yet (I know that on Symbian phones, there are some Bluetooth viruses), so why are they putting so much empathis on this? It seems the “good reason” to block third party developpers:

We are working on an advanced system which will offer developers broad access to natively program the iPhone’s amazing software platform while at the same time protecting users from malicious programs.

Let me guess: if you want to deploy on an IPhone, you will have to be “Apple Certified” developper? Or may be “Operator Certified”? We are back to the good old security issue on mobile, where independent third party application will be so restricted that it will be impossible to make it run on a mobile.
 May be I’m wrong, but wait and see…
On the same topic, read Russel Beatties “Third Party Applications on the iPhone…Translated“

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