Application developers swarm to iPhone

San Jose Mercury News provides a wrap-up of last weeks WWDC and taste of what we can expect from Apple’s App Store come July 11th:

“I’m seeing an excitement among mobile developers that I’ve never seen before,” said Sam Altman, chief executive and co-founder of Mountain View-based Loopt, a location-based social networking service. “People who said they’d never start a mobile (applications) company because they didn’t want to rely on the carriers are now starting companies focused only on the iPhone.”

as well as these interesting metrics…

M:Metrics, a mobile research firm, reported in spring that 31 percent of iPhone owners watched mobile TV or video vs. a mere 4.6 percent market average. Fifty percent of iPhone users also reported using their gadget to access a social-networking site, about 12 times more than the industry average.