iPhone to ship on June 29th at 6pm

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Those of you that already have your calendars marked for the big day can now set your watches as well, as Steve himself not only reiterated the iPhone’s launch date during his Jobsnote, but let loose the actual time it’ll ship as well: 6:00pm. What’s not so clear, however, is if that’s 6pm Pacific, or 6pm in each location, which’d give folks on the east coast a few precious hours of bragging rights while their buddies in less-fortunate time zones are still waiting in line.

 

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Apple announces third-party software details for iPhone

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As expected, Apple used WWDC as the stage to announce a third-party development solution for the iPhone, putting to rest fears that the handset would be a closed (read: non-smartphone) platform. Calling it a “sweet solution” for allowing devs to get their wares onto iPhones across the globe without sacrificing stability or security, Apple is using its full Safari-based browser to let folks code up true, Web 2.0-compatible apps that can be accessed and updated on developers’ own servers. Though any apps that third-party developers put together will run under Safari, they’ll be totally customizable and maintain the platform’s unique look and feel. Better yet, they won’t require any special SDK — Jobs claims that a working knowledge of modern web standards is all we’ll need to code up custom iPhone goodies to our hearts’ content.

 

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Safari 3 for Windows

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Sign one more up for the browser war, Apple is shipping the third version of its well received Safari WebKit-based browser over to foreign shores to duke it out with the likes of IE, Firefox and Opera… on Windows. The Mac-only browser has already attained a 5% market share, and it seems the Apple folks plan to use it in much the same way they’ve used iTunes to grow the Mac fanbase by giving Windows users “a glass of ice water to somebody in hell!” Apple claims their browser is up to twice as fast as the competition, and the public beta of Safari 3 is being released today as a free download for Mac OS X, Windows XP and Windows Vista.

 

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