The next time you visit your doctor, don’t be surprised if he pulls out an iPhone.

Third-party developers are now busy with the SDK, and developers are working diligently on all kinds of apps, including ones for the healthcare industry.

The portability and wide range of functionality make the iPhone an ideal tool for doctors in the hospital, paramedics on the scene, firefighters and even police officers on duty. Look for apps to pop up for these professions in the months to come.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see more hospitals and clinics run on a completely Mac network, complete with iPhones for the docs. At my local family doctor, all the staff and doctors run macs, and I’ve often chatted to them about the performance and reliability of the whole system. There have been no complaints, the system works great according to the people I’ve talked to… All staff and especially the doctors seem to love the mac!

[via Silicon.com]

written by Mr. Mayor \\ tags: iPhone, iPhone Apps, SDK

Remember that ‘special iPhone SDK event‘ Apple is having next week? It’s sounding like the news might not be as positive as everyone had hoped.

BGR is reporting today that it may not be all it has been hyped up to be. According to several sources, Apple is planning to lock down the SDK… and hand-picking which apps will make it onto the iPhone.

There is also rumor that Apple will be presenting an SDK in the very early stages of development when they hold their meeting next week.

I have to admit, this is the first I’ve heard of all this… and it is all just rumor at this point.

Has anyone else out there heard similar grumblings?

written by Mr. Mayor \\ tags: iPhone, SDK

Oh my God! Seriously! The iPhone SDK - it’s coming out tomorrow! No, right, seriously. I was on the train earlier and the bloke that checked my ticket, he told me that he had been speaking to someone in the buffet car who was trying to get a bacon roll (except that they had run out and so he had to have a cheeseburger but he didn’t want one of those, so he had a Twix instead), well, he was speaking to him when he got a call on his mobile and he overheard him speaking to a bloke who was obviously from Apple, and he said that he was speaking to someone else and they said that the SDK was going to be launched tomorrow. Seriously!

Right, I suspect - but I don’t know - that this will become a fact within a couple of hours. The internet will be buzzing with the ‘SDK on Tuesday Buffet Car’ rumour. Yes, I was on that train… but the rest of it didn’t happen.

Now, I read that Apple users are more discerning than the average bear. We are cleverer and more good looking. All of these things are, in my experience, true. But, man alive, are we willing to swallow any old drivel when we’re waiting for a new product or update!

So, could we all just calm down a bit. It is entirely possible that the relevant bit of the SDK is already in the latest iTunes update, awaiting an activation code from the mothership. It is equally possible that it is not. It is possible that it is not yet ready. It is equally possible that it is not. There are very few things that we know as a fact.

In the meantime, by all means draw up the wish lists (after all, they will help the developers work out what they need to develop) but take deep breaths. It will come. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow. But when it does, at least we know it will be ready and it will work.

written by James Barisic \\ tags: buffet car, iPhone, rumours, SDK