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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2006-08-04
because he was standing on a stage, infront of real developers saying that Web 2.0 is good enough, when everyone in that room knew it wasn't.
I don't see them doing work to make the Safari apps look like real apps, there is no point. If they want to really expose more of the phone features it won't be through Safari, it will be a real SDK.
This is just a stop gap to keep people from saying the iPhone is closed. With all the Web 2.0 hype, how can you really argue for Google Apps and against Safari as a real SDK?
The real question is, how much does Apple really want to expose to developers? They obviously realize they have to provide something...