I was in the Tampa Apple store around 1pm today, and they still had iPhones in stock. There were maybe 20 or 30 people in line. It wasn’t that crazy. I called ahead and reserved a MacBook Pro (more on that later). They had someone help me personally and sell me [...]
Go read Steve Jobs talking about how native apps on the iPhone blow web apps on the iPhone out of the water. And then read the transcript of him at WWDC ‘07 (to a room full of OS X developers) trying to pass web apps off as a viable substitute for native apps.
Apple’s announcement that there will be no software development kit for iPhone, while it may fool some in the media, will not fool developers, who see this as a giant “f-you.”
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Apple’s press release could use some translation, with a hat tip to John Gruber.
iPhone to Support Third-Party Web 2.0 Applications
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