Apple's new iPhone 3.2 SDK, and what it means for you
As you likely know by now, Apple has released information about its new tablet, the iPad, as well as releasing a beta software development kit (SDK), to iPhone
developers. This SDK is full of new features, many of which may trickle down to the iPhone. Neowin has gained access to the documents surrounding this new SDK, including the new features for developers.
File sharing
The most interesting new feature that iPhone OS 3.2 presents is file sharing. When an application wants to save documents, it can now add them to the shared directory. When an iPad, or possibly an iPhone (in the future), is plugged into a Mac or PC, it will show this shared directory in the Finder or Windows Explorer, respectively.
You may not think this is a big feature, but for apps which have struggled since the launch of the App Store to sync information with an iPhone, this change is huge. Rather than doing a complicated hookup that requires user interaction for each and every sync, and works over wifi, an application can now save updated settings directly onto an iPad, automatically.
