iPhone and Cocoa
It’s 4:30 AM in Taipei. About two hours ago Apple announced iPhone SDK. Many friends of us feel the same like us: “Is it real?” All seems too good to be true.
From what we have learned so far, they are for real. At the moment, Apple’s own developer site is overwhelmed by the download traffic, and we have no luck to get a quick peek at the new things–free!–with which we are at the same time all familiar: Cocoa, Xcode, Interface Builder. In short, they provide us a platform to which we can quick transfer our desktop skills. And Apple has solved the distribution puzzle and given all developers the definitive answer: the iTunes App Store.
So this is what we have learned so far. We’ll get the SDK once it’s our turn to download. We’ll start do our homework (and yes we have been reading Craig Hockenberry et al. on previously learned facts of what a native SDK would offer to developers). Homework time!