Apple today announced that its revolutionary iPhone will run applications created with Web 2.0 Internet standards when it begins shipping on June 29. Developers can create Web 2.0 applications which look and behave just like the applications built into iPhone, and which can seamlessly access iPhone’s services, including 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.
“Developers and users alike are going to be very surprised and pleased at how great these applications look and work on iPhone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “Our innovative approach, using Web 2.0-based standards, lets developers create amazing new applications while keeping the iPhone secure and reliable.”
Web 2.0-based applications are being embraced by leading developers because they are far more interactive and responsive than traditional web applications, and can be easily distributed over the Internet and painlessly updated by simply changing the code on the developers’ own servers. The modern web standards also provide secure data access and transactions, like those used with Amazon.com or online banking.
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web apps have access to a tiny (and controlled) subset of the possibility’s of a computer.
i like the idea of web apps, but they require a server to provide real services, they don’t allow u to extend the possibilities of the iPhone at all.
a web interface is the top of the iceberg that is real C code.
a web 2 application cannot be 3D, u can’t make a web 2 photoshop, iTunes, iPhoto, nothing, u are limited to what HTML allows.
it’s prehistoric, not progress.
i’m a developer, i wrote some of mac os x (drag and drop + easy open), what i did just can’t be done with the web at all.
i completely understand why Apple made this compromise, but it’s just NOT good news.
This is quite the disappointment. It’s non-news… if Apple’s running ads saying the iPhone is the real web then OF COURSE it runs web apps.
The iPhone had me so excited last week that I was actually about to take the plunge and really learn cocoa/objective C.
Now I know that it may be a great phone but it’s not a platform. It’s just a phone with a web browser. Yes, more and more can be done in a web browser. But some of us still get excited about the speed and crispness and 100.0% availability of a real live local software app.
I was excited by the idea of the apps you take with you in your pocket everywhere.
The iphone looks wonderful, but Apple may have inadvertently movitated me to consider smart phone app development… on phones that really are platforms. Inspried me, then sent me to platform X or platform Y.
Huge disappointment. I miss the giddy days when Apple made platforms… even the unsuccessful ones (a la Newton).
So basically I can write iPhone apps by developing web services in .net… not what I had in mind.
Sorry cocoa. I’m looking for a NEW opportunity.
Yeah, I’m incredibly bummed.
Will let the Americans be our beta testers for the iPhone ! By the time it arrives in Europe should be bug free, 3G with web2 apps available in time 4 X-mas !
@8R – could you explain why you think bloo is from Nokia.
Did you actually read the threads.?