Per yesterday's story regarding third-party developer Tiny Code's involvement with the development of the long-awaited software development kit for the iPhone and iPod touch devices, the site has admitted that these claims were part of an elaborate joke according to iPhone Atlas.

On Friday, the group posted a message on its web site stating that the developer was "working with Apple and with their SDK (software development kit) for the next firmware release and SDK applications.” This statement was then compounded with the Tiny Code web site redirecting its traffic to the Apple developer's page to help further industry speculation.

The revised web site now states the following apology:

“Tiny-Code never had any relations with Apple, Inc. or any other division of Apple. Never had the new firmware or any pre-SDK pack. Certainly never signed any NDA. I find it interesting that a simple joke on the front of a minor at best Installer.app repo can cause so many wakes. It is equivocally funny that a simple re-enforcement of the page by me posted earlier stating I had been ‘reprimanded’ by Apple could throw it even more into believability. To top it all off, a simple redirection of the domain to Apple’s iPhone Developer center would cause so many theories as to why that is so when it was to just stop the ‘where did it go’ questions.”

A developer with the Tiny Code group going by the online handle "Kelley", offered continued apologies to Apple and users who had defended the Tiny Code web site in the wake of criticism.

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