{"id":1590,"date":"2007-10-17T16:54:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T19:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=2212"},"modified":"2010-05-08T17:18:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:18:21","slug":"re-state-of-the-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/17\/re-state-of-the-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: State of the iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Jobs just said<\/a> (I guess I should say, Real<\/em> Steve Jobs, hehe) on his blog:<\/p>\n

…We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February.<\/p>\n

…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. …we believe it is a step in the right direction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This seems to indicate that the application installer – which will in all probability be iTunes – will check if the application is properly signed. Whether they’ll allow developer-signed apps is anybody’s guess, but I wouldn’t rely on it. (Signed apps is one of the 300 Leopard features<\/a>, by the way. I’ll comment on the Leopard day announcement in a few days.)<\/p>\n

I wrote two weeks ago:
\nRainer Brockerhoff wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conclusions:<\/p>\n

– the current generation of iPhone\/iPod touch will remain closed forever, just like the first generations of iPods; (I was wrong there, and a good thing too!)<\/em><\/p>\n

– an SDK is likely to come out only after everything (especially the hardware) has stabilized;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the February OS X version will be the first one with stable, public APIs… meaning current apps, written to reverse-engineered specs, will probably have to be seriously rewritten.<\/p>\n

Rainer Brockerhoff wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Apple is unlikely to invest efforts into implementing TrustZone in the current generation, unless Moorestown (or whatever else they might adopt in the future) has a similar security feature – and maybe not even then<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now I wonder how they’ll handle such a hypothetical future hardware migration… probably fat binaries, with the “other” executables being stripped out by iTunes when installing an app; this would be the most flexible without upping memory footprint on the phone side.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Seems that Intel and ARM are collaborating<\/a> on new TrustZone implementations… might that foreshadow TrustZone on Moorestown…?<\/p>\n

Now, some people say this proves that Apple is listening to complaints and that they’re changing their original plans; on the contrary, I think this had been the plan all the time, but the Leopard delay also delayed the SDK. Regarding the timing of this announcement, this might be a trial balloon to see if they can minimize the inevitable profit-taking after next week’s earnings announcement. Hopefully that will happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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