With WWDC looming more questions are being asked than being answered. One of which is whether or not you will be able to see a publicly released version of 3.0 the day of WWDC. Well I am here to give you my insight as an iPhone enthusiast, long term iPhone owner, and app developer as to why you will not see it until the new iPhone is launched in July.
New APIs
I think there is little to no doubt that a new iPhone is going to be announced in June. If the past is any indiction of how things are going to go down, you will see the announcement in June and a release in July. That said, the new iPhone will inevitably use new APIs that older models will not be able to utilize. Apple, not wanting to show their hand before the announcement, won’t give developers access to those APIs until that particular piece of hardware has been officially been announced in June. Then they will have to beta test with the developers until the new iPhone is released.
May 28th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
I thought the API's were out already? You can get the SDK now so I would assume whatever is in the API's works with the hardware of the 3G phone. No way they could be holding out and announce a new API for new hardware when they already asked people to be 3.0 compliant. My guess is that the hints to the new hardware would be in the code.
May 29th, 2009 at 8:08 am
True, but Apple wold rather hold some API's back so not to let anyone know what they are releasing than to give developers the change to leak possible specs of the next device. They already have a hard enough time hiding code, much less publish information in a public API
May 29th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Yes I suppose so that could be true. They wouldn't hold back anything that could break code upon release. So it would only be new APIs
May 29th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
True, but Apple wold rather hold some API's back so not to let anyone know what they are releasing than to give developers the change to leak possible specs of the next device. They already have a hard enough time hiding code, much less publish information in a public API
May 29th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Yes I suppose so that could be true. They wouldn't hold back anything that could break code upon release. So it would only be new APIs