Apple’s COO Tim Cook says that the iPhone SDK will finally launch next Thursday–likely while I’m in the air on the way to SxSW:

Cook also hinted that on March 6, Apple will release tools that programmers can use to create downloadable iPhone software, which Apple can then sell through its iTunes stores.

But of course, this is geek news, not regular-people news, so it comes as part of an article on Cook’s assertion that Apple’s not married to the single-carrier business model for the iPhone. Nice. Perhaps sometime soon, I’ll be able to finally switch to Verizon and ditch AT&T forever.