Security Response

On the day I got my iPhone I submitted a bug report to Apple. It wasn’t truly a bug, but I didn’t know of a better way to express my disappointment involving the absence of a software development kit for the iPhone. It just seemed like too unique of a device to not be able to create applications for it. Perhaps a bug report was a bit of a low blow, but I never expected I'd hear anything back. However, the day after Apple announced they were going to release an iPhone dev kit in February of '08, I got an email in response to my "bug." Now, this email was identical to what Apple posted in the "Hot News" portion of their Web site and while I'd seen it before on many of the Apple news sites, this time I actually read it. One big section stood out in particular:

“It will take until February to release an SDK because we’re trying to do two diametrically...