Steve Jobs announced today that there will, indeed, be 3rd-party apps sanctioned by Apple. An SDK for developers is planned for February. I think the developer community is going to be strong for the iPhone. Micro-killer apps will be created (apps that are killer apps for small groups of people with different needs) and it will spur on lots of sales. Apple may indeed come to dominate the mobile phone market in the end.
Apple just launched a huge directory of iPhone Web applications at http://www.apple.com/webapps/. I guess this makes all the other iPhone app directories obsolete. I’m glad to see that almost all of my iPhone Games are listed. I’ll have to dig in deeper to see what other apps Apple has unearthed.
“J” asked how you would sync your Google calendar to your iPhone. Well, one way would be to simply use Google Calendar directly with their iPhone interface. But, if you want your Google calendar events to show up in the native iPhone calendar app, then you simply need to subscribe to your Google calendar via your Mac’s iCal application. Do this by going into Google Calendar, managing your calendars, sharing them publicly, and then grabbing the iCal link in the Calendar Details page. Paste that into iCal. Then your iCal application will read from Google calendar, and your iPhone syncs with that.
Unfortunately, there is no way to reverse the process, so new items added via your iPhone will never make it to Google Calendar. And, don’t even ask me how to do this in Windows. No idea.