I've been earning my living as a Software Developer since 1981, so I guess I can call myself a Developer, although I've never developed anything for Mac.
Info about the SDK and the iPhone Developer Program is frustratingly patchy right now, but here's what I do know;
If you have successfully enrolled in the iPhone Developer Program and paid the $99.00 enrollment fee, you can consider yourself one of the lucky ones, and the SDK you got from that will allow you to send the Application you have built, to the iPhone itself, and come June, your apps will be eligible to be distributed via the App Store.
If, like myself, you downloaded the free SDK, but have not been enrolled in the $99.00 program, you will find that the only way you can run your applications is on the Simulator. This is very limited in that you cannot Simulate anything that uses 3D Graphics using OpenGL ES, you cannot Simulate Accelerometer functionality etc.
I've waited many months for this SDK, I spent big on a new iMac to develop with, I have ideas for iPhone applications, and I have many years of Application development experience, and I'm chomping at the bit to create stuff for the iPhone, but until and unless Apple accept my enrollment, I'm dead in the water.
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