Aaaah f**k yez Apple with your iPhone SDK

This is about the worst of all worlds. You need a certificate to get the applications to the damned device even when you’re a developer – I would have thought that the 2gb download of the SDK would have taken care of that for casual end users.
The ‘right to develop’ is $99. It’s open to a limited number of companies and individuals in the US only. This is probably due to needing to verify the developers to issue them a cert.
Apparently Steve loves the code signing requirements of the Nokia S series phones. What he misses is that this can be switched off from the UI of the phone.
So at the moment, we can develop test applications that can be used in the simulator. Just like the palm… oh, no hang on, they allow applications to be installed without any code signing requirements and they allow you to develop for the platform without any cost to the end user. Granted this took several years while the only development tools were on the Mac (CodeWarrior), but the end result has been a zero cost of entry development environment which was geared to the small developer.
Sir Steve – get your head out of your ass on this one.