Comments on: The SDK’s out tomorrow – what’s on your wishlist? http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/03/the-sdks-out-tomorrow-whats-on-your-wishlist/ Original comment and commentary, with a UK focus. Not another cut 'n' paste news site. Thu, 23 Jul 2015 20:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Matt Radford http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/03/the-sdks-out-tomorrow-whats-on-your-wishlist/#comment-116 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:57:53 +0000 http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/03/the-sdks-out-tomorrow-whats-on-your-wishlist/#comment-116 Mel, your requirements may well be on the way to being met. Why buy and learn a boatload of new native apps, when you can just re-use your Palm apps? Check out Style Tap, who are developing a Palm emulator for the iPhone :)

http://www.styletap.com/product_apple.php

]]> By: mel jones http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/03/the-sdks-out-tomorrow-whats-on-your-wishlist/#comment-115 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:58:55 +0000 http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/03/the-sdks-out-tomorrow-whats-on-your-wishlist/#comment-115 As a long time palm user I would love to have two of my favourite apps on the iphone. The first would be Datebook which is a sophisticated but simple to use calendar, memo app and Handbase which is a very clever and versatile database app plus a search tool, a reader would be quite useful, Mobipocket is a favourite of mine. Of course there are dozens of others, one day it would be nice to have as many as are available for the Palm OS.

]]> By: James @ Nokia Creative http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/03/the-sdks-out-tomorrow-whats-on-your-wishlist/#comment-114 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:52:56 +0000 http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/03/the-sdks-out-tomorrow-whats-on-your-wishlist/#comment-114 Bring on iPlayer and World of Warcraft and I’m happy! (^_-)

]]> By: Matt Radford http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/03/the-sdks-out-tomorrow-whats-on-your-wishlist/#comment-113 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:04:06 +0000 http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/03/the-sdks-out-tomorrow-whats-on-your-wishlist/#comment-113 Whoops – I was a bit eager there. Thank you for correcting me on the date (I’ve updated the article), and also for your annoyingly instructive linguistic pendantry. My questions will go unbegged in future…

OmniFocus would be a great addition to the iPhone’s range of apps, and I’d be surprised if that and other GTD apps didn’t turn up quite soon. Even a basic native to-do app would be useful. However, you’re absolutely correct in pointing out that it would be of massive benefit to synchronise the desktop and the iPhone OmniFocus data. I’d be extremely surprised if Apple doesn’t cater for this, seeing as the iPhone hooks into OS X’s Sync Services. Third party apps such as the Missing Sync have already taken advantage of this to provide for syncing additional data to the iPhone.

]]> By: Richard Flynn http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/03/the-sdks-out-tomorrow-whats-on-your-wishlist/#comment-112 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:28:20 +0000 http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/03/the-sdks-out-tomorrow-whats-on-your-wishlist/#comment-112 1. The event is on Thursday (6th March), not tomorrow.
2. ‘Which begs the question…’. Not it does not. Begging the question is a precise logical concept which, put simply, means using a circular argument. (There is no specific ‘question’ in the sense of ‘inquiry’.) ‘Beg the question’ does not mean ‘gives rise to the question’, or something similar.

Right then; having got that out of the way, the most exciting prospect for me brought by the forthcoming SDK is a portable version of OmniFocus which would sync with the desktop application. However, it’s very difficult to say what Apple will provide for third-party developers (duh)—they might not allow for third-party apps to use any desktop–mobile syncing mechanism (either integrated into iTunes or otherwise). I also have a feeling that Apple won’t release anything tangible on Thursday, but rather that they will give a bit more solid information and then announce the date on which the SDK will be delivered to developers. And boy will that be annoying.

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