Apple announced today that it would be opening the iPhone to third-party development. This will happen by way of a Software Developers' Kit, or SDK. We nerds do love our TLA's (Three Letter Acronyms). The SDK will be out just in time for Valentine's Day. I guess they figure most potential iPhone coders won't have much else going on then anyway.
There are some obvious applications and features missing from the iPhone like a voice recorder, voice dialing, Exchange calendar syncing and the like. Zuma, for Christ's sake. Zuma!
But those things will be covered ad naseum on plenty of geek blogs in the coming days. The add-ons I'm most looking forward to are those that are a bit outside the box. What the iPhone really needs is some really non-conventional but still very useful software.
How about a good drunk-dial blocker to keep you from accidentally calling your boss to tell him what you really thought of him throwing you under the bus in front of clients? Perhaps it could take advantage of an external breathalizer, locking you out of the phone when you've had a few too many. Or maybe it could just look at your most recent calendar events and try to figure out when you are most likely to have been drinking. "Oh, I see you had your annual review this afternoon. Sorry, no SMS for you, biatch!"
Or what about a Utah tip calculator? You enter the amount of the dinner check and it figures out what ten percent minus three dollars would be.
If I could get my iPhone to do anything though I would program it to assemble my IKEA furniture. Frankly, I can't believe Apple didn't think of that from the beginning.
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oooh, the boys at work have covered this ground ad nasueum. We are very excited.