Apple Schedules iPhone SDK Event for March 6th

By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews

Well, they only missed it by a little more than a week. Wednesday Apple started emailing invitations to a special media event to be held March 6th. While Apple is generally close-mouthed about these events, this time they were pretty open, saying in an email sent to members of the media:

“Please join us to learn about the iPhone software roadmap, including the iPhone SDK and some exciting new enterprise features.”

The invitation-only event will be held on Thursday, March 6 at 10 a.m. on the Apple campus in Cupertino.

Announced in October of last year, the SDK was expected on Tuesday, but what’s a week between friends? The iPhone was birthed as a very closed platform, with no easy way to add application - except through web applications, and of course hacking.

The SDK would mean native applications could be written without “jailbreaking” the phone.

Perhaps even more interesting is the part about “new enterprise features.” Could this be Exchange server support?

You’ll recall that although the iPhone was launched as a consumer phone, earlier this year it was reclassified by AT&T as an Enterprise-class device. I can see CEOs salivating over possibly trading in their Blackberry devices for iPhones.