New App Store Available in 62 Countries SAN FRANCISCO, June 9
SAN FRANCISCO, June 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apple(R) today announced
that downloads of its iPhone(TM) SDK (Software Development Kit) have topped
more than 250,000 since its launch on March 6. The iPhone SDK provides
developers with the same rich set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
and tools that Apple uses to create its native applications for iPhone. Apple
today also announced that its amazing new App Store will be available in
62 countries bringing a breakthrough way for developers to wirelessly deliver
their applications directly to iPhone and iPod(R) touch users around the
world. Users can download applications wirelessly and start using them
immediately.
"Developer reaction to the features, power and simplicity of the iPhone
SDK has been incredible," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president
of Worldwide Product Marketing. "We are seeing some truly amazing native apps
from our developers and think users are going to love the breadth and depth of
the applications available from the App Store."
Leading developers such as AOL, Cisco, eBay, Electronic Arts, Epocrates,
TypePad, Salesforce.com and Sega have demonstrated impressive native
applications developed using the iPhone SDK.
"The SDK allowed us to build a groundbreaking new AIM client in record
time," said Kevin Conroy, executive vice president, AOL. "The platform's
elegance and ease of use has inspired our developers to create innovative new
web and SDK based experiences for iPhone and iPod touch."
"The iPhone SDK has given us an excellent set of tools and APIs to create
mobile extensions for FIM's entire portfolio of web brands including MySpace,
IGN and Photobucket in the near term, and other properties such as
FOXSports.com down the road," said John Smelzer, senior vice president of
Mobile for Fox Interactive Media. "The popularity of the iPhone, along with
the high demand for applications, gives us an amazing opportunity to create
ground-breaking mobile experiences."
"Cocoa-touch is a compact and robust application framework that handles
all the heavy lifting for developers so they can concentrate on building their
applications in record time with the legendary Apple finesse we've come to
expect," said David Krantz, president of YELLOWPAGES.COM. "iPhone has been a
game changer since it launched, and the availability of our YELLOWPAGES.COM
application on the App Store is going to make a great device even better."
"As mobile developers with primarily J2ME and BREW experience, we were up
and running with the iPhone within two weeks," said Jonathan Backer, manager
of Mobile Engineering, The Walt Disney Company. "The hardware is stable and
full-featured, while the software development tools are intuitive and
represent a level of polish rarely seen in the mobile arena."
"Since the launch of the iPhone we have seen a steady rise in traffic to
the MLB.com mobile site so it made perfect sense to develop a rich client
application for the App Store," said Adam Ritter, vice president, Wireless
Major League Baseball, Advanced Media. "Our development staff was excited to
work on an iPhone application and reported that the SDK was robust and
straight forward and contained helpful development tools. All combined we were
able to expedite our development and deliver an application we know baseball
fans will enjoy."
Pricing & Availability
The free beta iPhone SDK can be downloaded at
developer.apple.com/iphone/program. Membership to the iPhone Developer Program
is available worldwide. Developers set the price for their applications --
including free -- and retain 70 percent of all sales revenues.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple
II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh.
Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its
award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional
applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its
iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered
the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.
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