After slowly expanding its domestic iPhone Developer Program over the past couple of months, Apple is finally starting to show a little love to international developers, too. According to TUAW, the company began sending out a handful acceptance letters to third-party developers in both the U.K. and Norway on Monday.
A quick visit to the iPhone DevCenter reveals that Apple still has the disclaimer about "having many more requests than [it] can serve," but a screenshot of the international enrollment process actually suggests the program is now (unofficially) open to developers in 28 countries.
During Apple's fiscal Q2 earnings call last April, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said the company had signed up a total of 200,000 developers so far for its iPhone Software SDK, adding that more than one-third of Fortune 500 companies were also actively developing software for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With the official launch of the iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store still scheduled for late June, it looks like iPhone users here in the U.S. and abroad will have a healthy number of apps to choose from.
[TUAW]
