At last, Apple has seen the light and allowed those grubby third party developers to produce apps for the iPhone and Touch. It is amazing that apps have already been available as developers have hacked the device – meanwhile poor Google has been desperately courting developers for its mobile platform Android.
Anyhoo, followed engadget’s live blogging of the event and I have to say that Apple seem to be doing this properly. The idea of accessing an app store via iTunes and directly on the iPhone is really cool. To be honest I am not comfortable with any joker being able to produce an app riddled with malware that could muck up my little iPod Touch. It is nice to know that Apple will keep an eye on things.
The apps displayed looked really good – especially the games such as Spore. It makes me wonder if Apple had this planned along or did they really intend to limit third party apps to those stupid web apps?
Right! List of apps that I want:
- London underground map that is searchable, scalable and shows disruptions when wifi or edge is available.
- Street Fighter III with transparent controls overlay and can connect to other iPod Touchs or iPhones using wifi for multiplayer punch ups.
- Wipe Out HD using the tilt sensor would be very nice
- Doodling app so I doodle when bored and then save these master pieces.
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
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