100,000 SDK Downloads Foretell Glut of iPhone Apps

Three months ahead of its official launch, the test version of iPhone’s Software Development Kit is luring developers by the thousands — tens of thousands, actually. More than 100,000 developers downloaded the beta version of the iPhone 2.0 software, which bears the enterprise-supporting SDK, in the first four days it was available, Apple said Wednesday. Reaction to the launch has been “incredible,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing.