In Apple’s developer conference today, they announced the new enterprise features and details of software development kits (a.k.a SDK) for iphone.
All new enterprise features and final version of SDK will be released in June.
But, the iPhone SDK Beta is available now as free download on Apple website.
Here is the summary of enterprise features in iPhone 2.0:
- Push email
- Push calendar
- Push contacts
- Global address list
- Cisco IPsec VPN
- Certificates and Identities
- WPA2 / 802.1x
- Enforced security policies
- Device configuration
- Remote wipe
- Active Sync and Microsoft Exchange support
And, here is the summary of iphone sdk:
Four levels of architecture:
- Cocoa Touch - Multi-touch events, Multi-touch controls, Acceleromter, View Hierarchy, Localization, Alerts, Web View, People Picker, Image Picker, Camera
- Media - Core Audio, OpenAL, Audio Mixing, Audio Recording, Video Playback, JPG, PNG, TIFF, PDS Quartz, Core Animation, Embedded OpenGL
- Core Services - Collections, Address Book, Networking, File access, SQLite, Core Location, Net Services Threading, Preferences, URL utilities
- Core OS - OS X Kernel, BSD TCP/IP, Sockets, Power Management, Keychain, Certificates, File System, Lib System, Security, Bonjour
The sdk is only using XCode as development platform (which mean Mac only), it also included iphone simulator, the remote debugging and performance monitor tools set called instruments.
Native iPhone apps will be distributed through the iTunes App Store, with wireless downloads. Developers pick the price, and get 70% of revenue. The 70% will be paid out to developers monthly, and there are no other recurring fees. The iTunes App Store will handle over the air updates to your applications. Developers of free applications will not be charged for Apple to deliver their applications through iTunes.
And, there is a $99/year fee (individual developer and $299 for enterprise developers) in order to publish applications to the iTunes App Store.
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