iPhone - a few (color coordinated) widgets needed
Guess who is opening up its platform - yes, the very last company that would come to mind - one that’s synonymous with “proprietary” - Apple! The company that taught us that function must follow form, and used color as their competitive differentiation, is now releasing an SDK (software development kit) so that anyone can build an application for the iPhone!
The release of the iPhone SDK is slated for February of 2008 (in June of 2007 they announced that they would Apple would start supporting 3rd party applications built to Web 2.0 standards). Their current suite of web 2.0 apps include Twitter, Facebook and Mundu. No doubt there will be a big rush to build widgets once they officially launch the new platform.
One thing is clear though, no matter what the application, the icon color better be just right!