iPhone developers' kit "delayed"

Posted on 25 Feb 2008 at 11:00

Apple will not be able to released the iPhone developers' kit as promised this month, according to one unconfirmed report.

BusinessWeek claims that the tools for building native iPhone and iPod touch applications could be up to three weeks away. Apple naturally did not comment, and according to BusinessWeek's source the release date is "fluid".

"A lot of last-minute decisions are close to being made about what precisely will or will not be disclosed next week, if anything," says Business Week's Arik Hesseldahl in a blog post.

Fortune notes that as Apple has had almost five months to solve what Apple chief executive Steve Jobs described as the "diametrically opposed" problems of providing both open and secure platform for developers.

"If Cupertino's best developers haven't cracked that nut in the four and a half months since, it could take them more than ... one to three extra weeks," notes Fortune's Apple 2.0 blogger Philip Elmer-Witt.

It also casts doubt on the November 2007 report that Apple had sent an early version of the tools to select developers.

Author: Simon Aughton

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