iPhone OS 3.0. Are you ready?
As of today, iPhone developers who want to have their applications available from the App Store must ensure their apps work with 3.0. If their app fails to work properly with OS 3.0, Apple will yank it out of the App Store when 3.0 hits public and they'll have to recode it.
Macworld published this excerpt from Apple's iPhone Developer email notice:
"Beginning today, all submissions to the App Store will be reviewed on the latest beta of iPhone OS 3.0. If your app submission is not compatible with iPhone OS 3.0, it will not be approved.
Existing apps in the App Store should already run on iPhone OS 3.0 without modification, but you should test your existing apps with iPhone OS 3.0 to ensure there are no compatibility issues. After iPhone OS 3.0 becomes available to customers, any app that is incompatible with iPhone OS 3.0 may be removed from the App Store."
Apple seems confident that beta 5 is pretty close to what will be the final build of OS 3.0 because they are strongly encouraging the developers to test their apps with this latest release, more so than with previous beta releases.
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is one month away and it is likely that Apple will release OS 3.0 to the public at that event. Should they choose to do so, that would leave two to three weeks time to ensure the developers get things right.
Some of the new features in 3.0 include built in system level cut, copy, and paste, bluetooth file transfers for images and contacts, bluetooth network gaming, dock tethering for third party accessories, USB tethering for data connection sharing, MMS, SMS forwarding, more internationalization, in-app purchasing, and much more.
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