Apple announced to developers late Thursday afternoon that all app submissions not compatible with iPhone OS 3.0, will not be approved according to an email sent by the company. With the official launch of iPhone software version 3.0 expected to be less than two months away, it's no surprise that Apple is pushing all developers to comply with their launch plans.
"Beginning today, all submissions to the App Store will be reviewed on the latest beta of iPhone OS 3.0. If your app submission is not compatible with iPhone OS 3.0, it will not be approved." Apple wrote
Apple went on to confirm that most existing apps in the App Store should already run on iPhone OS 3.0 without requiring modification, but they encouraged all developers to start testing existing apps with iPhone OS 3.0 to ensure that there are no compatibility issues. The company warned that any apps incompatible with iPhone OS 3.0 could be removed from the App Store.
Apple released iPhone OS 3.0 beta 5 and iPhone SDK 3.0 beta 5 to developers just yesterday, which is now posted on the iPhone Dev Center website. Early reports indicate that version 5 disables both MMS and Tethering options. Some devs insist, if you had the MMS and Tethering activated before it will continue to work on the Beta 5 version as long as you UPDATE rather than RESTORE.
Today's announcement by Apple is bound to come as a shock to some.
i think this is a good idea because of the big differences between sdk 2.0 and 3.0, i want to launch an app in few day and i must test it 3.0
Thanks
Posted by: iphone architect | May 08, 2009 at 12:49 AM