Apple's SDK Press Conference - March 6, 2008 - 1pm EST / 10am PST

[aphex]

For those interested, you can follow the liveblogging at the following sites;

http://www.engadget.com/2008/0...hone-press-conference/
http://live.gizmodo.com/
http://www.macrumorslive.com/ (** My Personal Favorite **)

08:00AM - Hawaii
10:00AM - Pacific
11:00AM - Mountain
12:00PM - Central
01:00PM - Eastern
06:00PM - London
07:00PM - Paris
09:00PM - Moscow
03:00AM - Tokyo (March 7th)

Based on all the rumors i've been hearing at the various sites, it seems like tomorrow is more of a Roadmap of the SDK to come, and that an actual SDK is still a few months out. If so, I wonder what is taking so long?

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: aphex
I wonder what is taking so long?

Steve had to pull all his engineers to work on iphone 2 and iphone nano. he also had to to tap his lawyers to figure out a loophole in the at&t deal so he can have an open device to slap onto verizon's network.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: randomlinh

Originally posted by: aphex
I wonder what is taking so long?

Steve had to pull all his engineers to work on iphone 2 and iphone nano. he also had to to tap his lawyers to figure out a loophole in the at&t deal so he can have an open device to slap onto verizon's network.

Wishful thinking in part or whole?

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: randomlinh

Originally posted by: aphex
I wonder what is taking so long?

Steve had to pull all his engineers to work on iphone 2 and iphone nano. he also had to to tap his lawyers to figure out a loophole in the at&t deal so he can have an open device to slap onto verizon's network.

Wishful thinking in part or whole?

I'm pretty sure in whole. But if any bit of that is right, and we get an iphone 2 (other than just slapping 3G and minor updates).... I'm buying a dozen lotto tickets, haha

 

[TheStu]

Verizon announced recently that they were moving to an entirely open network, i wonder if that means one will be able to unlock an iPhone and use it on their network. I know about the difference between CDMA and GSM, but my understanding was that Verizon was going to roll out GSM service.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: TheStu
Verizon announced recently that they were moving to an entirely open network, i wonder if that means one will be able to unlock an iPhone and use it on their network. I know about the difference between CDMA and GSM, but my understanding was that Verizon was going to roll out GSM service.

Well CDMA and GSM are different cellular technologies, AT&T/T-Mobile use GSM, Verizon/Sprint/Alltel use CDMA/TDMA.

When Verizon said they were going to open their network, they were saying that they will allow Non-Verizon CDMA phones on their network, unfortunately not GSM. For Verizon to support GSM, it would require basically a revamp of their entire network structure.

I think you may have been confused because many of the articles also noted GSM in them as well, more as a counterpoint because GSM networks have supported this indirectly for years with unlocked phones (just pop in a sim and its on whatever GSM network you want).

I don't think we'll see a CDMA iPhone for awhile, but ya never know.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: TheStu
Verizon announced recently that they were moving to an entirely open network, i wonder if that means one will be able to unlock an iPhone and use it on their network. I know about the difference between CDMA and GSM, but my understanding was that Verizon was going to roll out GSM service.

Well CDMA and GSM are different cellular technologies, AT&T/T-Mobile use GSM, Verizon/Sprint/Alltel use CDMA/TDMA.

When Verizon said they were going to open their network, they were saying that they will allow Non-Verizon CDMA phones on their network, unfortunately not GSM. For Verizon to support GSM, it would require basically a revamp of their entire network structure.

I think you may have been confused because many of the articles also noted GSM in them as well, more as a counterpoint because GSM networks have supported this indirectly for years with unlocked phones (just pop in a sim and its on whatever GSM network you want).

I don't think we'll see a CDMA iPhone for awhile, but ya never know.

Ah, all the point counterpoint with the GSM v. CDMA must have thrown me