Welcome to O'Reilly Digital Media's Inside iPhone. It's a place where all things related to the iPhone platform at O'Reilly can call home. Here you'll find technologists passionate about the iPhone platform offering blogs, articles, code and forum chat about the iPhone SDK, web apps and Dashcode, and cool iPhone related innovations. If you'd like to contribute to Inside iPhone, please send mail to
Over on his personal weblog, Steven Frank of Panic Software has an excellent analysis of the iPhone App Store. It's well worth a read, as he distills down some important thoughts on the basic principles of software sales, and where... read more
– Paul Kafasis
As the open iPhone toolchain reveals, Apple has supplied a limited device-specific information class. You can retrieve far more information from your iPhone through its IO Registry. As on the Macintosh, the IO Registry provides a great deal of hardware specific information, which can be queried and used by your programs. read more
– Erica Sadun
I watched a couple of hours of presentations from iPhoneDevCamp on August 2 over my home office broadband connection. One of the presentations I heard (because the video wasn't working for me at the time) was from PinchMedia, a company... read more
– Dave Aiello
A short series of interesting tidbits from the week in iPhone: Firmware 1.2 Beta 3, iFund, and iOlympics... read more
– Matt Twomey
It's no secret that I'm not a fan of Apple's App Store being the sole provider of software for the iPhone. I discussed this at length in One Little Article, but the complaint boils down to this: I believe Apple...... read more
– Paul Kafasis
A friend recently asked me if I had seen Hotels.com's iPhone App? I said no, because I had no need for a hotel room anytime in the next few weeks, and I'd probably book ahead when I did need one....... read more
– Dave Aiello
"Hey Erica, I was hoping you could help get the word out about a forensics seminar and workshop I am giving in Boston this fall."... read more
– Erica Sadun
What happens when you lock a couple hundred iPhone developers in a room with an equal number of iPhones? Community, that's what.... read more
– Matt Twomey
Among all of the iPhone documentation published, how do you separate the wheat from the chaff? In this article, Matt Twomey highlights some of the documentation from Apple that he has found most accessible, but at the same time particularly useful. ... read more
– Matt Twomey
Apple CEO Steve Jobs stood in front of a sold out crowd at Apple's WWDC and told them that Apple is about to release phones that are better than the ones in their pocket and will cost half of what theirs cost. The developers responded with sustained enthusiastic applause. That reaction makes perfect sense. Jobs' keynote wasn't about products -- it was about a promising future, especially for developers in the audience.... read more
– Daniel H. Steinberg
O'Reilly has created a place where all things related to the iPhone can call home. Here you'll find technologists passionate about the iPhone platform offering blogs, articles, code and forum chat about the iPhone SDK, web apps and Dashcode, and cool iPhone related innovations.... read more
– Derrick Story