We already mentioned that beta6 was released to the enterprise customers. Well today Apple has released the SDK version 6 to everybody.

It appears the the SDK beta 6 can only be installed on Mac Os 10.5.3, that coincidently also got released today.

As for now there aren’t any new features discovered except for the geo-tagging but that’s something we already posted some time ago.

This morning Apple release Beta 5 version of the iPhone SDK.
According to first reports, there are no new features.
The update probably only brings some bugfixes for the developers.
This iPhone SDK includes a set of tools, compilers, frameworks, and documentation for creating iPhone OS applications.
» Apple iPhone SDK Beta 5 now available (updated with screenshots)

Yesterday we got a message the the iPhone dev program has been opened for international developers.
What are the differenced for us Europeans ? We pay more for a anual subscription. It’s about 79€ or $121. Our uk friends must pay about £59. » iPhone dev program finally opened to the whole world

Previously it was stated that the iPhone wouldn’t support tasks or apps running in the background, this was due to high battery and memory usage.
Some sources suspected that firmware build 5A258f does support apps running in the background.
However if we read the new SDK documentation well, this speculation gets rather quickly demolished.

When an application is inactive, it is executing but is not dispatching incoming events. This occurs when an overlay window pops up or when the device is locked.

Only one iPhone application can run at a time, and third-party applications never run in the background. This means that when users switch to another application, answer the phone, or check their email, the application they are using quits.

So far dreaming of a native chat or gps app :(

The Appstore opening is coming close by the day. More and more developing studio’s are releasing news about games and apps they are going to release.
Freeverse is one of those studio’s, they published a list of games that they will release on the Appstore.

Freeverse is best known of their mac app sound Studio and some minor mac games.

But today i’m not going to discuss mac apps.
» Freeverse’s list of official SDK games.