Building iPod touch applications
Apple have recently launched the iPod touch SDK Developers program, iPod touch and iPhone Developer Program provides a complete and integrated process for developing, debugging, and distributing free, commercial, or in-house applications native to iPhone and iPod touch. It comes complete with development resources, real-world testing on iPhone, and distribution on the App Store, so you have everything you need to go from code to customer.
For normal DJs and iPod users this is pretty insignificant, in that we wouldn’t need to ever handle this kind of stuff, however for programmers and developers this has huge implications, allowing them to create applications that run native on the iPod and iPhone… why would us iPod DJing fans care?
Well, there’s been plenty of noise made about creating an iPod application that allows you to DJ on the iPod, iPod touch, or iPhone without the need for a third party controller or without having to Jailbreak the iPhone.
There are a few applications that already allow you to DJ on an iPhone, but non are really full spec DJ applications and really don’t do the iPod any justice.
Anyways, if you’re an iPod fan, and a DJ and a Developer, then this might be of use to you.
The fifth beta version of the iPhone SDK includes Xcode IDE, iPhone simulator with Open GL ES support, Interface Builder, Instruments, frameworks and samples, compilers, and Shark analysis tool. Has now been launched and its free to trial, here.
For those of you who are really serious, there is the iFund, a $100M investment initiative that will fund market-changing ideas and products that extend the revolutionary new iPhone and iPod touch platform, provided by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.