Questions on the iPhone SDK

Hi, some questions :

1. I buy the iPhone SDK for one year. Will I be able to program
an application and put it on my iPhone without selling it (or giving it)
in the AppStore ?

2. If I don't pay next year, will I keep the iPhone SDK operational,
and still put my apps on my iPhone ?

Thanks,

JG

Jean Guillaume Pyraksos <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> Hi, some questions :
>
> 1. I buy the iPhone SDK for one year. Will I be able to program
> an application and put it on my iPhone without selling it (or giving it)
> in the AppStore ?

I have no idea.


> 2. If I don't pay next year, will I keep the iPhone SDK operational,
> and still put my apps on my iPhone ?

AFAIK, yes, on the condition that you version freeze everything, from
the OS to the applications.

Well, you may still allow the OS auto-updates, since they won't change
the minor version, only the bug release and security upgrades, which
soon enough drop to nothing.


But if you want to develop or port your application for a new device,
eg. the iPad, you will need a new version of the SDK, and therefore a
new version of the OS, and you will have to pay for them. (Well, if
pay for the SDK today, you will get the versions to work on iPhone,
iPod and iPad, but perhaps not he iPud or iPed(*) they'll issue next
year).




(*) Sorry about that, it's not me who came up with these "iPod" and
"iPad" names...
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com

> > 2. If I don't pay next year, will I keep the iPhone SDK operational,
> > and still put my apps on my iPhone ?
>
> AFAIK, yes, on the condition that you version freeze everything, from
> the OS to the applications.

Ok :-(

Another point : any chance that the iPad SDK has a GC ?
I suppose the limitation of having to release manually comes from
the limited memory of the iPhone ?...

JG

Yes, I know, but what about the iPad which has an increased memory ?

JG


> > Another point : any chance that the iPad SDK has a GC ?
> > I suppose the limitation of having to release manually comes from
> > the limited memory of the iPhone ?...
>
> There is no garbage collection on iPhone.

In article <wissme-(E-Mail Removed)>, Jean Guillaume
Pyraksos <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> > There is no garbage collection on iPhone.

> Yes, I know, but what about the iPad which has an increased memory ?

it has the same amount of memory as the iphone 3gs and runs a slightly
later version of the operating system (3.2, versus 3.1.3).

Tom Harrington <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> In article <wissme-(E-Mail Removed)>,
> Jean Guillaume Pyraksos <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > Hi, some questions :
> >
> > 1. I buy the iPhone SDK for one year. Will I be able to program
> > an application and put it on my iPhone without selling it (or giving it)
> > in the AppStore ?
>
> Yes, otherwise it would be impossible for anyone to debug an application
> before releasing it to the world.
>
> > 2. If I don't pay next year, will I keep the iPhone SDK operational,
> > and still put my apps on my iPhone ?
>
> If you don't renew, you'll still be able to use the SDK and the iPhone
> simulator, but you won't be able to put apps on your phone.

Given what I have seen with friends' private applications on my phone, I
think you would also lose the ability to keep using your own apps you
had already put on the phone, because the provisioning profile would
expire and you can't create a new one (or download the application to
use it) unless you are a paid member of the iPhone developer programme.

--
David Empson
(E-Mail Removed)

Jean Guillaume Pyraksos <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>> > 2. If I don't pay next year, will I keep the iPhone SDK operational,
>> > and still put my apps on my iPhone ?
>>
>> AFAIK, yes, on the condition that you version freeze everything, from
>> the OS to the applications.
>
> Ok :-(
>
> Another point : any chance that the iPad SDK has a GC ?
> I suppose the limitation of having to release manually comes from
> the limited memory of the iPhone ?...

No. It comes from shortsightness.
Garbage collecting was invented on a machine with 32 Kw of memory.

--
__Pascal Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com