After having shut down hacked iPhones, it turns out Apple is focused on creating an open platform for the iPhone afterall —

Third Party Applications on the iPhone

Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.

It’ll be interesting to see the resulting innovation from the real estate industry in 2008. Any ideas about potential real estate specific apps? I’m guessing we’ll see a number of both consumer facing applications as well as apps geared towards helping real estate professionals manage their business on the go.

[via Future of Real Estate Marketing]