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A New World for the iPhone

Besides forecasting a bigger hand held iPod game device this year, the fast development time, 2 weeks for the demos shown, will encourage a lot of developers to try out the free SDK. This will show them how to develop software for the Mac, on a Mac with most of the same tools that come free with their Mac purchase. Corporations can avoid the server charges for Blackberry functionality while developing corporate programs with the functionality of desktop software. This will mean a lot more programmers familiar with OS X, and software ports. It's big news for the iPhone business; but also a halo effect for OS X and corporate IT familiarity.