iPhone SDK downloads top 100,000
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Mar 12, 2008 at 5:23pm
More than 100,000 iPhone developers have downloaded the beta iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) in the first four days since its launch on March 6. Also, over one million people have watched the launch video on Apple.com, according to Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.
Apple also previewed the new App Store, a way for developers to wirelessly deliver their applications to iPhone and iPod touch users. Developers set the price for their applications (including free, if they wish) and retain 70 percent of all sales revenues. Developers such as AOL, Electronic Arts, Epocrates, salesforce.com and Sega have already demonstrated apps using the SDK.
The free beta iPhone SDK is available immediately worldwide and can be downloaded at developer.apple.com/iphone/program. The iPhone Developer Program will initially be available in the US and will expand to other countries in the coming months. A QuickTime video of the iPhone roadmap event is available to view here.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
