The iPhone Software Roadmap
Apple have just uploaded yesterday’s SDK event. You can view it here.
If you can’t be bothered to watch the video, or just hate Steve Jobs’ face, here’s Omio’s synopsis of yesterday’s shenanigans.
1) You will only be able to run one third party app at a time, and when you leave the app to do something else on your iPhone, such as answer a call or check your email inbox for the fiftieth time that day because surely you’ll have one this time, the app will close.
2) You can’t access the mobile phone network with the apps; you’ll have to rely on WiFi.
3) Amazon asked if they could build an app which would allow users to buy songs from the Amazon MP3 shop. No answer has been forthcoming.
4) Developers can only use the Apple APIs, and only in the way that Apple says they can use them.
5) iPhone Human Interface Guidelines have been published. Since only registered iPhone developers can see this, Tech Crunch have kindly embedded the document in their article, which you can read here (scroll down to the bottom).