ARS Technica notes that Apple has added a new set of iPhone SDK samples. Lots-o-learning within.

In light of the pending lifting-of-the-NDA, the OmniMouth talks about iPhone development and Frameworks.

The New York Times reports that Palm plans to sell 2 million Centros in 2008. That’s 1/5th the number of projected iPhone sales (and 1/10th of the analyst’s expectations of 20+ million by 2009). I smell a spanking in the works.¹

1. Dear Palm, the end is near. ↩

People are going on and on about the lack of ability to do background processing in an iPhone app. Gruber counters the flow (and may be right), but I can’t help but wonder if maybe Apple has something else up their sleeve?

I may be out to lunch, but it’s possible that the iPhone’s TCP/IP stack (or its select equivalent) is able to hold connections open in an event-ish way. Really this is all that’s needed in most cases, some sort of continuity for applications like IM. Full background processing is a bad idea on a quality phone/mp3 player, but some sort of compromise may just do the trick.

Here’s hoping Apple has something like this in mind.

A good set of iPhone SDK observations. For more iPhone stuff, go see Gruber’s mega-dump.

I used to have to boot to my Windows partition regularly to charge my iPod touch, a feature that’s been added to Ubuntu 7.10. Now I only need to reboot if I need to resync it, which I do far less regularly. Yes, I’ll be buying a Mac this year¹.

1. which fixes the problem ↩

I’ve added a new theme for those of you browsing the site with an iPhone or iPod Touch. It’s based on Joe Hewitt’s iUI library, with some WordPress plugin magic.

[Google reader] finally added support for the iPod touch today, and it’s really, really handy. Their Safari mobile reader has a ways to go, but today’s release is far better than their standard mobile interface.

I see lots of unanswered questions in the iPhoneWebDev Google group. People are developing mobile Safari web apps and finding out how limited the platform is. I’m having good luck so far, but have found that frugal is absolutely required.

Yesterday’s iPhone/iPod touch firmware updates seem to fix the most obnoxious of the early release bugs. My favorite fix? The music player no longer randomly crashes while browsing the web. Safari seems snappier too.