The iPhone SDK

It seems to me that the Apple SDK announcement has one big piece of good news for end users, and probably several pieces of news, good and bad, for developers. The good news for end users is that you'll be able to have a simple, on-the-iPhone way to get a new application. It will probably be some degree of revision to the iTunes store currently on the iPhone.

The more functionality they add, the better -- I find the iPhone version of iTunes to be a little too iCrippled. I'd prefer to see podcasts available, for example.

For more about what the news means to people in the development business, have a look at Michael Mace's analysis.

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Traffic

I'm having a "be careful what you wish for" experience. My iPhone webapps have spiked the traffic on my website so near the bandwidth quota it makes me nervous. This is all free stuff, so aside from any Adsense revenue (which is very, very little at this point) and a PayPal "donate" button it's just an expense.

Still, it's pretty nice to have so many people visit and try these things.

Even though I'm complaining, of course, I'm still linking to these iPhone ebooks:
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Life on the Mississippi
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
Treasure Island

And Cubetry, the daily Cubicle Rhyme client.