My work with the iPhone SDK continues, working on three clients to our backend services at the moment. I’m very much looking forward to blogging about this as it’s cleared at work. But as you probably have noticed from my posts, working locally and synchronizing with the back-end is what I believe most iPhone applications are about. Do quick and stuff you need to remember on the iPhone, work out the details from your computer, keep everything in sync. That’s why I’m excited about Google’s data integration. That’s why I’m excited about integrating SQLite. That’s why I spend a lot of time working with SOAP integration. And of course, it’s all good fun. I’m tempted to say that working with a back-end is a lot easier than doing everything local. At least the satisfaction of seeing the work you do on the little screen influencing the real world is a lot better than it just influencing that screen. 
One thing I’m miffed about, though, is the NDA. They’ve got a 100,000 downloads, and if 1/20t of this is developers, then that’s still 5,000 developers. Where are they all? I can’t find much going on on discussion boards, forums, mailing-lists or whatever. And Apple is only slowly letting them in to their community. I hope they’ll let us in soon, I want to discuss problems I’m having without having people with briefcases coming after me, I want to know what other people are working on, I want the development to be more social. Right now, it’s mostly a one-man game, and that’ll get old very soon
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I think your right about the NDA maybe holding real developers like you a bit back with sharing data. I’m kinda hoping its a bit quiet because everyone is working like madmen all day and all night.
Apple is curbing all iPhone SDK discussions on their lists, but it’s nice to see discussion spreading elsewhere. For instance, there are discussions going at macrumor’s mac programming forum with lots of questions I’ve had myself (such as Visual Studio style code completion in XCode and rotating simulator) but also very many really beginner questions. Let’s see what becomes of iPhone DevCentral, coming April 15th. So far he’s posted two samples that have been very well received, hope it’ll become a great resource for iPhone developers at all levels
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Re: other iPhone developers. Might want to get on Twitter and look around for iPhone devs to ‘follow.’ There’s not much open discussion because of the NDA and as you say most everyone is working like crazy on apps, but you’ll get a sense of who is doing what.
I’m one of those working like crazy — the deadline being June and the WWDC conference. Once that’s over, I’m sure a lot of people will come out of the woodwork.