[credit: Jim Dalrymple and Jason Snell]

Apple will present information on the future of the iPhone. And this invitation will be held on thursday, March 6 at 10 a.m. on the Apple campus in Cupertino.

Apple first unveiled plans to release an SDK, or software development kit, for the iPhone in October 2007. An SDK would enable independent software developers to write programs that could be installed and run on the iPhone without modifying the iPhone’s core operating system.

Since the iPhone’s initial release, several groups of developers have found ways to “jailbreak” iPhones, letting users install third-party applications through unsupported means. Members of the media and development community had criticized Apple for not providing outside access to the iPhone by any means other than using the Safari browser to access web-based applications, criticism that faded after Apple indicated its intentions to release an SDK.

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