Apple distributed invitations this morning for “an iPhone software road map” event to take place on March 6th.

Apple’s official software development kit (SDK) and associated components for the iPhone are complete and ready to ship, sources familiar with the matter have told iPhone Atlas. However, a series of legal hurdles — potentially including patent approval [...]

We don’t often conduct user surveys here on iPhone Atlas, but with Apple still apparently planning to “have an SDK in developers’ hands in February,” and February rapidly coming to a close, we’ll bluntly ask: what third-party applications would you most like to see materialize after the advent of the software development kit?

A number of [...]

Innovation in the iPhone development community is progressing at an aggressive pace despite the continued lack of an official software development kit (SDK) from Apple (which, by all accounts, is still due this month). The latest breakthrough comes from Kevin Brosius, who has figured out how to use Apple’s slick CoverFlow technology (used to browse [...]

An iPhone developer who claimed he was working with Apple’s yet-to-be-announced iPhone SDK (software development kit) and had access to the 1.1.4 software/firmware now says he was lying. In a post to a MacRumors thread, “Kelly” of Tiny-Code wrote:

“Tiny-Code never had any relations with Apple, Inc. or any other division of Apple. Never had the [...]

Fueling speculation that Apple is working with Tiny-Code (a developer of unofficial iPhone applications), the small firm’s site now redirects to Apple’s iPhone Dev Center site.

On Friday, Tiny-Code posted a message to its site stating that the developer was “working with Apple and with their SDK (software development kit) for the next firmware release and [...]

Claiming that it is “working with Apple and with their SDK (software development kit) for the next firmware release and SDK applications,” a company called “Tiny Code” has pulled its repository of unofficial third-party iPhone software “for legality reasons” and says “you should see us soon on iTunes.”

Tiny Code maintains a collection of software for [...]

Apple is due to ship an official iPhone software development kit (SDK) this month. Promising to create a “vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone,” CEO Steve Jobs promised in October 2007 that the SDK would be “in developers hands” in February. However, there’s already a vibrant iPhone developer community — one from [...]

Although Apple has yet to release an official SDK (software development kit) for the iPhone, developers have already become proficient at creating native applications for the device using an unofficial toolchain. Presumably many these applications, some of which hold significant value, will be easily transferrable or natively compatible with Apple’s official distribution/development scheme. In fact, [...]

While Apple gears for the launch of its own, official software development kit (SDK) for the iPhone, the unofficial application development community continues to thrive. In addition to the continuing surge of new third-party applications available through Installer, the community continues to make headway with regard to more accessible development tools.

Following in the footsteps of [...]

Although we’re hearing that Apple isn’t anywhere close to nailing down specifics for its official iPhone software development kit, due in February 2008, the company has begun recruiting some to-notch talent from the unofficial iPhone application development realm: Lucas Newman of Delicious Monster has been hired by Apple as an “iPhone engineer” according to a [...]