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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Scott Bourne, Alex Lindsay, and Andy Ihnatko.
The iPhone SDK announcement, including Exchange, ActiveSync, $100M iFund, games, IM, and more.
Apple had a little annoucement
(and none of us were invited)
The iPhone got a little enterprise-booster, with Microsoft
Activesync, VPN (including Cisco IPSec), other corporate security
features and even direct Microsoft Exchange support (and “you’re email doesn’t go through Canada”: cough, Blackberry, cough)
iPhone gets pushed as a big gaming platform, even EA’s Spore will be on the iPhone
iPhone SDK is released
(with more than 100,000 downloads already). Developers have to pay $99
to join the dev program, and free apps are hosted for free, Apple takes
a 30% cut of revenue on paid apps. Apps will be availble (only) via
the on-iPhone appstore, coming as part of the iPhone 2.0 software update
in june.
Kleiner Perkins (KMBC), venture capital firm, is launching a $100,000,000 iFund for iPhone developersAIM will be on the iPhoneTSA cannot believe the Macbook Air is a real laptop (“It has some lines where the drive should be!”, and “Where are the ports on the back!”)
Steven Levy may have Recyled his Macbook Air with a copy of NYT
- Lightroom Plug-ins for Zenfolio, SmugMug and Flickr Export-for Free from Leo
- UltraLigua, a great online dictionary and translator, including iPhone support-$29.95 from Scott Bourne
- A free Audiobook! A study in Emerald-For Free from Andy Ihnatko
- Marathon! The original Bungie Game, now open source, available for Mac, Linux and Windows: a Marathon MBW tournament is in the works-For Free from Alex Lindsay