Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 12th Jun 2007 01:16 UTC
When Steve Jobs mentioned a few weeks ago that there will be "some sort of app development" for the iPhone, everyone assumed he meant widgets. Widgets are less powerful than native applications, and depending on the underlying OS hooks offered, they can be even less powerful than J2ME apps. But when Jobs came out today to outright sell us Web 2.0 and said that "no SDK required", I felt cheated.
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RE: Not so great with EDGE
by Moochman on Tue 12th Jun 2007 10:22
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You bring up a good point about Meebo, that IM applications could be doable after all, but ultimately how well a low-powered ARM CPU can pull it off remains to be seen.
Also, Eugenia: So what if Flash support would mean Flash ads are possible? It would also mean that Flash apps would be possible, and that is a very exciting prospect!
Edited 2007-06-12 10:23
RE[2]: Not so great with EDGE
by Eugenia on Tue 12th Jun 2007 10:24
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There will be a lot of simple acceptable quality apps that can be done with as web apps like a basic IM client(think Meebo, but optimized for a phone's screen size) and some basic word proccesing stuff, again optimized for the screen size. While these will work perfectly fine over WiFi, but like most AJAX apps, they will probably be a bit of a pain over a slower EDGE connection and out of the question when no connection is availiable. Sure some of this could be mitigated with something like Google Gears, but until then, AJAX as the SDK is fairly useless with out a constant WiFi connection.