iPhone SDK smells like trouble

On Thursday, March 6, Apple, Inc. announced the iPhone SDK to sighs of relief and adoration in the Mac development community. But there was something else in the air, something that made devs just a tiny bit uncomfortable — in their pants.

Apple has been snapping up engineers left and right, including young Lucas Newman, noted iPhone hacker, recently of Delicious Monster. The word on the street is that while they are ostensibly being used to write the SDK software, now in beta and being polished up for a late June release, they are also working on other projects.

While the SDK was released to fanfare, there is now a growing sense of unease in the community, and no one can quite put their finger on (or in) it. Might it have something to do with the restrictions Apple has placed on iPhone development at this early stage? Steve Jobs himself has listed 6 reasons an iPhone app would not approved for the App Store:

• Illegal
• Malicious
• Unforeseen
• Privacy
• Porn
• Bandwidth hog

It is unclear is they are saving these items for their own gleeful apps.

Only time will tell if the SDK and all it's "enhancements" will ultimately be used for good.