On Jan 10, 2007, at 09:30, Brian Topping wrote:
> The only concern I had at the display was when I asked "So this is
> running OS-X, can I create apps for it with XCode?" The response I
> got came after a noticeable pause and visible discomfort on the part
> of the Apple guy standing the booth. He basically said "there may be
> opportunities for that and the information will be posted to the
> developer website when it is available."
The iPhone is most likely running a very much stripped down and
modified version of OS X on an as yet, unspecified processor so XCode
apps are unlikely to ever be able to run unless Apple release an
XCode update to support it.
> It wasn't what he said, it was how he said it. He was clearly
> briefed on what to say and his delivery said to me that they were not
> at all confident that the options we developers were going to get
> were going to be at all well-received. It felt like he was bracing
> for a storm.
Think widgets as applications.
Kyle
Received on Wed Jan 10 03:02:01 2007