Elite Frontier

I just reviewed Apple’s online video presentation and given the improvements and new APIs I think the iPhone OS 3.0 is the Killer App of the iPhone. This is similar to how the Java API itself was the Killer App for Java. Apple has provided most of the heavy-lifting, leaving the creativity to the iPhone software developers.

I think the upcoming APIs are going to make near-future iPhone applications so compelling, the end result will be that purchasing an iPhone will no longer be based upon the hardware or even cost. Competing mobile applications and their phones that are non touch and button-based, will be seriously outclassed.

The 3rd Party device API, will make the iPhone the ‘brains’ of dumb devices; the potential for innovation founded upon the iPhone enabled 3rd party devices is just too staggering to consider.

The new features and APIs will compel the building of new enterprise-level applications. I think that a new enterprise-level software/hardware development industry might just have been born today.