The fact Apple has decided not to allow development of applications on the iPhone by 3rd party developers has some people a little perturbed. Rather than releasing an SDK and allowing native code development on the iPhone, Apple’s solution is for developer’s to write Web 2.0 applications which will run on the phone’s browser, Safari 3.
This definitely poses some issues regarding accessibility of the applications–people will first have to open Safari, then navigate via bookmarks just to get to the 3rd party web apps developers create.
Not to mention, how will people find out about these apps? Sites such as iphoneapplicationlist.com have already started posting links to apps that are being written. But even then, there needs to be an easier way.
Sounds like I’ve got an idea for a web app… more soon.
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1 Erik Huddleston // Jul 3, 2007 at 12:44 pm
While I had a similar negative reaction to the iPhone application development stance of Apple, after using the iPhone for a few days, I have revised my opinion. I think the usability of web 2.0 apps on the iPhone makes it a great platform. I have wrote up my opinions here:
http://2glue.typepad.com/productivity/2007/07/mobile-web-20-p.html
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