At a town-hall meeting at Apple HQ in Cupertino, Steve Jobs and company announced the release of a free iPhone SDK for developers, as well as a $99 iPhone Developer’s Program that allows devs to publish their apps (both free and commercial) to iTunes. On top of that, venture capital company Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is investing $100 million dollars (Dr. Evil voice) to fund development of apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch. How that money gets divied up is anyone’s guess, but Apple made sure to point out that it’s 10 times more than what Google has in its coffers for Android devs.
This is all part of an announcement for iPhone 2.0, which is coming to customers in June, and has some nifty new “enterprise features.” But really, the important thing is that now indie game developers with Mac OSX can go apeshit on the iPhone! For details the new SDK, head over here (Gizmodo).
(Thanks, Phil!)