Apple Reports 100,000 iPhone SDK Downloads

Apple Inc. is very optimistic reporting Wednesday that it has seen over 100,000 downloads of its iPhone SDK, (Software Development Kit). The beta download has reached this goal in just four days, since its launch on March 6th.

The real hot topic has been iPhone gaming as Gamelost has confirmed that it is making 15 titles for the iPhone, and there have been pledges from Namco, PopCap cames and THQ to add iPhone support. This means we could see Bejeweled, Zuma, and Peggle and so much more on the iPhone taking advantage of the touch screen capability.

At the same time, news comes out of the underworld that iPhone 2.0 has been hacked by a group calling themselves the iPhone Dev Team. The group reported late on Tuesday that it had "decrypted the disk image and jail-broken the firmware." Basically the group is saying that they have found a way to run applications on the the firmware that ships with recently sold iPhones without a development certificate from Apple.

To prove their work, the group posted screenshots of applications running on the beta version of the firmware which Apple plans to ship on its final form as iPhone 2.0 in June of 2008. The group did admit that their applications worked with a "hacked activation" and not on the exclusive iPhone service provider AT&T.

Apple Reports 100,000 iPhone SDK Downloads

The iPhone SDK is just four days released and now some are reporting that the iPhone 2.0 has already been hacked.