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Do you remember when in April Apple changed the SDK license agreement in order to ban applications not natively written with Apple tools (like MonoTouch and Flash)? The (old) clause was: 3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that...

As everyone know, with the latest release of the iPhone OS, Apple made all applications not developed natively with the Apple stack (XCode, Objective-C) “illegal”. This change created a big turmoil in all developer communities because that means that no translators/converters/adapters can be used to develop native iPhone app. While probably this had the goal to ban only the new iPhone Packager included in Adobe CS5 (which would have allowed Flash developer to develop a Flash application and automatically make it an iPhone app), it might probably effect also on many other libraries, like MonoTouch (even if this is...

For those who were not able to follow live the keynote and have not found two hours of spare time to watch the recorded stream of the WWDC, here you can fine a video that recaps in a little more than 1 minute all the important news announced during the Apple WWDC 2009 keynote. Enjoy: WWDC 09 in 1 minute   Technorati Tags: apple,wwdc,iphone

With excitement I followed the live text-cast of the iPhone OS 3.0 Preview event. My favorite highlights are: Native access to Google Maps API and turn by turn directions Push Notifications (but no background apps) Copy&Paste Landscape mode in Mail MMS Web form auto-fill and password manager They started with a good pace, showing the new feature for the devs, and then they slowed the pace, showing some amazing apps that were not possible before OS 3.0, like...

And here is how my blog looks on my new toy. Now back to my regular schedule. iPhone

In Italy everybody was excited to hear that TIM (the mobile company of the once telecommunication monopolist Telecom Italia) would be selling the new 3G iPhone starting from this summer. But today Vodafone made an unexpected announcement: Vodafone today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network. ...