Apple’s recent announcement of the beta release of their apps for iPhone SDK has gone down ‎a storm with owners and developers alike. So popular was the news that over 100,000 ‎lucky people flocked to Apple’s site to iPhone download the SDK. Another 1,000,000 ‎sneaked a look at Apple’s video of the announcement event. Impressive numbers. So ‎impressive that Apple’s servers start to complain and churn out happy 404 errors ‎‎(incidentally there are torrents of the iPhone SDK available if you’re having trouble ‎getting to the site). This is what 210 terabytes of data does to your servers, if you’re ‎interested!‎
So the fans were excited. What about those in the industry? Yes, they were excited ‎too. Very excited. Six Apart’s CEO admitted that it’s already using the iPhone SDK ‎and developing a “native iPhone application for TypePad”; game producers PopCap ‎and Namco have announced ports to the platform of their most popular games. We’ve ‎no doubt that simple, playable games will be very popular on iphone – and probably ‎easily knocked together using the new iPhone SDK – but don’t expect GT5 or GTA to ‎start appearing (though I’m willing to eat my words!). Exciting times.‎

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