Ooh, truly good news. I will be very interested to see how it works on other apps in iOS.
"the FiftyThree team would like to release an SDK that would allow third-party developers to also take advantage of the device"
Great, but there needs to be a guarantee that you are free to develop any kind of application, even a competitor to Paper.
Re:Pencil
by interpol_p on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @06:30PM
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Why would you even say that? It makes no business sense for them to disallow competitors with their eventual SDK because they will still be selling much more expensive hardware to those people.
With an SDK they can only sell more products, whether that is apps, hardware, or both.
Where they should limit their SDK use is in branding — they probably wouldn't want poor quality or badly designed apps advertising (or even using) the Pencil SDK. It would reflect badly on their product. So they need to maintain control in those cases.
They shouldn't allow "any kind of app." They should allow "any kind of app that meets their standards for quality."
Don't assume there won't be an SDK for Pencil, too.
Re:Pencil
by nobodysfool on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @01:04PM
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But "Pencil" probably won't work with Adobe apps, am I right?
You should expect to hear more around this when Mighty ships.
(Disclosure, I work for Adobe).