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Jobs to iPhone Developers - Write a Web App

by Terrence O'Brien on June 11, 2007 at 03:17 PM


We mentioned that rumors were flying about Apple opening the iPhone up to third-party developers. Well, today during his keynote, Jobs revealed exactly how this is going to work.

There is no Software Development Kit. Just use the built-in Safari engine to run AJAX based web apps.

Wait... So Jobs' idea of opening up the iPhone to developers is to let them run Web apps? This isn't quite as bad as it sounds. Apple will open access to core functions of the phone to the Web apps so they can place calls, send e-mails, etc. But this is not quite what most of us had in mind when we heard there would be third-party apps on the phone.

Another concern is speed, since the iPhone runs over Cingular's aging and relatively slow EDGE network. Running rich Web applications at speeds hovering in the high dial-up range might prove to be too excruciating for customers to bother.

From Engadget

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