![]() We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers hands in February. On OctoSteve Jobs wrote an open letter on 's Hot News page, announcing an iPhone SDK (software developers kit) for the spring of 2008. Internally, Nitin Ganatra and Apple's mobile apps team moved from the previous application programming interfaces (API) to the same ones being used in the SDK, so Apple would feel pain and fix things before they hit developers and their shared customers. Various options were explored, and in the end Henri Lamiraux and his team picked themselves up and started sprinting again, this time towards a Software Development Kit (SDK). To ship an App Store would require yet another forced march. Apple's teams had only just completed the forced-march that was needed to ship the original iPhone. The reality, as is often the case, was more about resources than resolve. ![]() There are all sorts of rumors about various executives at Apple pushing for or against a native App Store. They even developed their own Linux-style repositories, including Installer.app, and later, Cydia. Twitterrific was born, as was Lights Off and Tap Tap Revolution. In other words, real third party software was now possible. ![]() Jailbreak let unsigned code run on the iPhone, and that meant apps could be run outside of the ones Apple built in. The original iPhone was jailbroken less than a month after release, and a web based jailbreak became available in the fall of 2007.
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