A number of iPhone developers apparently ran into issues today with the beta version of the iPhone OS expiring (yielding what some dubbed a “pink screen of death”). Perhaps someone tripped over an Ethernet cable in Cupertino that controls the expiration dead man switch?
Fortunately, it seems to have been little more than a matter of mistiming on Apple’s part. A third beta of the iPhone SDK has now been released; it adds support for the latest version of the iPhone OS and fixes some bugs. As a beta release, there are still known issues with the new version, including an apparent incompatibility between iTunes 7.6.1 and Xcode which can result in crashing (you’ll want to install iTunes 7.6.1 before the SDK).
Hopefully, this will resolve any lingering issues with iPhone expirations.
