Finally, applications for the iPhone without hacking the device!

As I write this, Apple is carrying on a presentation on their new features for iPhone including a Software Developer's Kit (SDK). It's official - the SDK is here. Finally, there will be a way for software companies to develop native iPhone applications (not just iPhone compliant websites) that take full advantage of the phone's capabilities including contacts, the calendar, wifi, edge, etc. This is happening LIVE right now, so I don't have all the details yet, but this is a HUGE development in the takeover of the iPhone as the biggest "new generation" smart phone in existence. Apple quoted figures that the iPhone already accounts for 70% of all mobile web browsing! Bank of America already sees 25% of all their banking web traffic from iPhones!

This is all simply amazing and the iPhone as a platform for mobile web applications is finally here!