Interviews with Digital Media Thought Leaders
Will the iPhone SDK Live Up to Expectations?
Podcast Audio | Posted by Phil Leigh on March 30, 2008
Summary: If you are curious to know whether the new Software Developers Kit for the Apple iPhone is a genuinely significant industry development, this interview is for you.
Subject: Our guest today is Steve Lang who operates the MadMaxMedia.com blog. Steve believes that the new SDK is a truly important and will live up to the general media hype. He feels that in the future there will be a multitude of 3rd party applications that will make the iPhone a portable “teleputer” upon which voice conversations shall be merely one of a great many applications. Phil’s Take. Although Steve has great expectations I still have lingering concerns that Apple may not be opening-up enough. Confessedly my viewpoint may be jaundiced by the historical example whereby Microsoft licensed its computer OS to everyone whereas Apple kept theirs closed. Even though Apple did provide an SDK for its computers, the fact that 3rd party developers could gain access to the OS on PCs eventually resulted in a far greater number of applications being developed for the PC than the Mac.
Nonetheless, I want Steve to be right because it will launch a concept of mobile computing that will be so rich as to be nearly unrecognizable by comparison to the environment today. If Steve is right, iPhones will essentially become hand-held computers and they will integrate geo-positioning data as we have never known it. For example, when you do a Google search for a restaurant the “teleputer” will not only give you a list, but it will tell you which is the closest one and how to get there…etc…etc.
Categories: Podcast Audio
Tags: Apple, digital media, George Gilder, iPhone, Kleiner Perkins, Palm, Phil Leigh, SDK, smart phones, Steve Lang, teleputer
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