iPhone and BatchBook, Sitting in a Tree…
- Posted June 14th, 2007
- Filed under: Technology
With the launch of the Apple iPhone merely a few days away, Apple’s legion of loyal developers entered the week still anxiously awaiting word on how they are supposed to develop applications for the thing. The answer, most assumed, would come this week at the Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC07) this week. The timing was frighteningly close to the iPhone’s launch, but better late than never.
Well, they got their answer. And many didn’t like it. As Michael Calore of Wired put it:
Suddenly, a sound that’s rarely ever heard in a Jobs keynote welled up in the giant conference hall. Crickets.
Apple’s self-proclaimed “sweet” solution is an interesting one. They essentially told the developers to “make web apps.” The iPhone runs a full version of Apple’s Safari web browser. (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Ajax are all fully supported, so essentially if a web app uses web standards, it will work on the iPhone.
