3rd party applications for ipod touch

3rd Party Applications For iPod Touch due February

Today I was at the apple website to get some more

tricks(applications,Software) for us iPod Touch lovers.

What I found out is amazing, people don't have to use hacks to use 3rd

party applications on ipod touch, by february iphone and ipod touch

owners will be able to add applications! (yey).

Here is the quote from apple site:

Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the

iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers' hands in

February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party

developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new

applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch

interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we

believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for

developers.

It will take until February to release an SDK because we're trying

to do two diametrically opposed things at once--provide an advanced

and open platform to developers while at the same time protect

iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc. This is

no easy task. Some claim that viruses and malware are not a problem

on mobile phones--this is simply not true. There have been serious

viruses on other mobile phones already, including some that

silently spread from phone to phone over the cell network. As our

phones become more powerful, these malicious programs will become

more dangerous. And since the iPhone is the most advanced phone

ever, it will be a highly visible target.

Some companies are already taking action. Nokia, for example, is

not allowing any applications to be loaded onto some of their

newest phones unless they have a digital signature that can be

traced back to a known developer. While this makes such a phone

less than "totally open," we believe it is a step in the right

direction. 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.

We think a few months of patience now will be rewarded by many

years of great third party applications running on safe and

reliable iPhones.

Steve

P.S.: The SDK will also allow developers to create applications for

iPod touch.

Source:Apple

Posted by ProBlogger at 11:13 AM