Thursday, March 6, 2008

I don't know what Apple was thinking slapping a 2.1GB SDK on the web (http) for download instead of doing FTP. And what is with the size? Why do we need to download the whole of XCode if we already have it installed? Why not offer an updater along with the extra bits we need? Unless this is the updater somehow. I'd be amazed. Anyway, I am surprised at the girth of this SDK and I won't know more until its finished downloading. I keep screen-sharing to my dev Mac in the office to see the status of the download. Time for bed though me thinks, a big day tomorrow... more on that when I get a chance. BTW, IB is the UI builder for the iPhone, I was worried we'd be forced to use Dashcode for that, although you can still use Dashcode for other iPhone dev if you want. No Flash? Thats okay for me at the moment. Games was a concern, looks like the SDK handled that bigtime (EA, Sega, etc.) and video has already been kind of addressed via YouTube H.264, although stuff like ESPN, etc. may need to offer up their own apps or something now? Lots for those of us with Intel Macs to play with. Debug and Simulator look amazing.

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