So you want to develop an application for the iPhone? What a joke!

I just finish to watch Steve Jobs keynote and at the end for the first time, Jobs make me laughing loud!

His Steveness has just dicovered the web as a platform for developing applications on the iPhone.

Yes he's serious, and as he say it's awesome. If you want to develop software for the iPhone, do it with the browser stupid :-)

Lot of fun with this. And the bloke who did the demo was even more funny in his own seriousness. Yes you can use Safari, it's the best way to build a reliable application for your shiny new iPhone.

Come on Steve, this is not what I call building software!

I understand now more the strategy to push Safari on Windows. Rather than building a clean and nice SDK with all the APIs (maybe for .Net) Apple try to tease us with Safari.

Seriously I stay with Windows Mobile and .Net for mobile if I really want to build some serious stuff.

LOL

7 Comments

  • haha yeah I heard this too. How does Jobs get away with these things.

    Basically he stated that the iphone supports javascript and html. WOOOOHOOOOO amazing! What a technological breakthrough.

  • Actually it is significant that Safari will have a full Javascript stack which includes AJAX functionality. IE on Windows Mobile has been limited and the mobile web applications has suffered as a result. With Safari you could actually pull off things like Google Mail and Maps. And with all of that screen space I think you could build a decent web application. I would be interested in hosting a Silverlight application within a Safari browser on the iPhone. That could do a lot.

  • Brennan two things:

    - I am talking about applications, not web applications. Like a Word or an Office like for mobile. Not everything is possible with Ajax. Plus the web application won't be hosted on the iPhone so this is a serious limitation if you have no Internet access!

    - Yes agree with Silverlight but nothing today show that you can install other plugin than the one Apple provide with the phone. I know Flash will be there but no idea if you can install something else, after all according to Apple this will breach the 'reliability and security' of the device.

  • Don't you think that in a world of connected devices and disappearing shrink-wrapped software that this is actually the right way to approach it?

  • Jeff not every single application need to be connected or accessible from Internet.

    Take a game for example. Today you can use games developed for Windows Mobile on your machine.

    An Office type software is also a good example.

  • Wow. How narrow minded.

    Most of the apps I'd want to write for a communication device would involve... communicating! Things like pulling information from various network resources. What better platform to develop for than the one I make my living off of? Not only that, but if I write an app for the iPhone, it is instantly usable by ANYONE else with a web browser.

    Can you say that about every .Net app you develop?
    Perhaps, if you're an ASP.Net developer, but even then...

  • Joke!?! Sounds like genius to me. Apple basically has given access to anyone that wants to build an app for their phone. And they have done this while keeping their system (relatively) safe by containing the apps to the web browser. I think this will challenge developers to build some great apps, and I sure wish I had one to work with myself :P

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