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Apple reported today two little items of interest:

Sounds like Adobe has got Flash running in the Simulator but not on the device itself. Could it be that Apple has yet to accept Adobe into the iPhone Developer Program? Yikes.

The problem with trying to child-proof the world, is that it makes people neglect the far more important task of world-proofing the child.

A couple of other thoughts I want to share as the WWDC closes down:

Well, the WWDC is almost over. Actually, for me, it ended yesterday afternoon. I skipped all of the sessions today in favor of staying up very late last night doing real work. I checked out of my hotel at noon and took a taxi to the airport and am now shacking up in the Red Carpet Club again, waiting for my flight at 6:30pm.

My posting velocity on both CharlesSieg.com and via Twitter is decreasing a bit. There are a couple of reasons for that. One is that most of the stuff we hear during the daily sessions is covered by NDA and, while some people feel free to disregard that, I'm all about not biting the hand that feeds me. So no sneaky posts from me. Private conversations with me, however, is another story. Second, there is quite simply a lot of work to be done and work takes priority over blogging. I'm at the conference all day and then I put in at least another 8 hours in front of the computer at night working on my code and trying out some of the techniques picked up during the day. Last night, for instance, I went to bed at around 5am Pacific time... Today I am taking a lighter day, getting back in sync with Illinois time and, hence, the break for a little blogging.

I'm tired so only the most important details:

They announced in the keynote that the iPhone SDK had been downloaded over 200,000 times. Of those, about 25,000 people applied to the paid iPhone Developer Program. Of those, they have accepted only 4,000 applications. One of those was mine. I'm feeling pretty good about that right now.

I made a bunch of predictions yesterday about what would be announced today at the WWDC keynote. Here are the ones I got right:

Well, today was a very good day. So far, the WWDC has not disappointed. I posted just about everything on my Twitter feed, in real-time, and, to my utter surprise, Twitter did not blow up under the stress (including the thousands of others doing the same).