iPhone to Support Third-Party Web 2.0 Applications: "When it begins shipping on June 29, the revolutionary iPhone will run applications created with Web 2.0 Internet standards Apple today announced that developers can create Web 2.0 applications that look and behave just like the applications built into iPhone and that can seamlessly access iPhone’s services. That includes making a phone call, sending an email and displaying a location in Google Maps. Third-party applications created using Web 2.0 standards can extend iPhone’s capabilities without compromising its reliability or security."
(Via Apple Hot News.)
2 comments:
And yet, this makes perfect sense. Notice iPhone is not being opened up to third-party apps in general, but Web 2.0 apps specifically. And why not? One of iPhones claims to fame is a full internet experience (see their NY Times example in an iPhone commercial), and not a dumbed-down internet.
I love it.
That fulfills both goals, does it not? Apple gets to keep security where they wish, and developers get to show off their skills by creating applications that can stretch beyond the phone. Very cool.
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