How are you supposed to test (as a developer) an application under the 3.0 SDK if you don't install it. If the rejection criteria for apps now include compatibility with 3.0 then you have to test it yourself (turn around time for the Apple review process can be weeks). But how are you then supposed to develop under the 2.x SDK so that you can continue to submit apps (and updates) to the store if you've just installed 3.0 on your only development machine?

No new apps (or updates) from developers who only have one development machine. You're not allowed to develop apps under the 3.0 SDK, even targeted at 2.x firmware, and submit them to the store. So either you need two Macs, one with the 2.x SDK, the other with the 3.0 SDK, or if you only have one machine you need to continue to develop with the 2.x SDK and hope that your app still works under 3.0.

It is a burden if you only have one development machine. Applications developed under SDK 3.0 can not be submitted to the App Store review process, even if they were developed under the SDK 3.0 but targeted at 2.x.

That means, if you only have one Mac to develop on, or one iPhone or iPod touch to test on, then you're effectively locked out from submitting new applications to the App Store until Apple release 3.0 to the public, or possibly only slightly before if we're that lucky. Effectively this brings a halt to app releases or updates to existing apps already in the store from small developers until much later this year...

Well OSCON is next week, if it's real, it'll show up there. I remember a few years back (2003 maybe?) there was a bug in (what was then) Rendezvous and something similar happened to the WiFi network at OSCON. I think it took the collective great and the good about an hour into the first day of the conference to track it down an file the bug report with Apple.

Interesting because O2 doesn't have an EDGE network in the UK. As far as I know the only operator in the UK to have a EDGE network is Orange.

I think you're all missing the point. This is a big step, and if you look at the Blue Origin website that’s obvious to people in the business, or on the edges of the business like myself. See,

http://www.babilim.co.uk/blog/2007/01/first-launch-for-blue-origin.html

Jeff has run the entire thing as a skunk works project, nobody really knew what he was doing. It appears to be that he’s only released this footage so that he can recruit some new people with heavy lifter experience. He’s looking for people with experience with Delta IV or Atlas V. Those aren’t small vehicles. He isn’t in the sub-orbital business like Scaled and Branson, he’s going for an single stage to orbit lifter.

From the looks of things he’s basically up to where NASA and McDonnell Douglas was with the DC-X back in 1993. The Scaled design can’t scale to a craft which can obtain orbit, the Blue Origin design certainly can. That’s big news…

See,

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aallan/41796427/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aallan/41796452/

enough said?

I must admit I think the release of the airline adaptor is actually quite significant. Laptop users break down into two core demographics,

http://www.babilim.co.uk/blog/2006/01/future-for-apple-powerbook.html

but this is something designed for the road warrior, the people that were out buying 12-inch Powerbooks. The MacBook won't cut it as a replacement for these people, it's a bit on the big side, and it isn't really powerful enough. So who is this widget aimed at? Not the people buying 17-inch MacBook Pros, these people are looking for something a little bit more compact.

What would I like to see? A wide-screen, slim line, light weight, version of the 12" Powerbook with a multiple mouse button trackpad, since they've already done that with the Mighty Mouse. Get rid of the optical drive entirely, reduce the weight. Maybe even drop the hardrive and go with an instant-on flash based notebook.

http://www.babilim.co.uk/blog/2005/11/no-hard-drive-means-instant-on.html

The people buying that sort of product are looking for a an airline power adaptor, so maybe, just maybe?

Danny Espinoza from Mesa Dynamics responded to my blog post and it appears they have a developer programme coming up later this year, which would resolve the problem I was having. I've attached Danny's response to my post...

http://www.babilim.co.uk/blog/2006/10/set-your-widgets-free.html

I stumbled across UNEASY's post and initially got really excited about Amnesty Singles, turning Dashboard widgets into stand-alone OSX bundles would solve a problem that's been bugging me for a while. However it turns out that the company has crippled the application which means that you can't hand the bundle you make out of the widget on to a third party, not even if they also have a Singles license. See,

http://www.babilim.co.uk/blog/2006/10/set-your-widgets-free.html

for details...