Apple today officially launched its Web-apps for iPhone website which lists over 200 third-party Web-based applications for the device.
“Apple has categorized the listing by Most Recent, Most Popular, Alphabetical and Staff Picks. Currently, the most popular programs are the Facebook app, Bejeweled, Sudoku, and a Twitter app called Hahlo,” MacNN reports.
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Notice that the website is at apple.com/webapps not apple.com/iphone/webapps . I think iphone may be a trojan horse for webapps on the desktop, which certainly explains why the need for safari on windows. Perhaps the market for Desktop software isnt dead after all.
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Hey – you’re not allowed to post insightful comments on the first post around here. Let’s try to get with the program dude.
Apple, “web apps” don’t count. We want the iPhone as a platform, not a client.
If coding to a browser is the thing, why isn’t everyone doing it for Explorer? (Fscked-up HTML that only works on Explorer doesn’t count)
So , do you use up paid minutes to use these web apps?
MDN: this website is for iPod Touch too! That should be in your headline!
Dude, where is the “First”? WHERE IS IT????? I NEED MY FIRST, FIRST THING! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
MDWord: indeed
He is insightful and first. wow.
I agree with our first poster– web apps are a trojan horse of sorts. Hence the 10GB upgrade to .Mac. It’s more than an overdue appeasement. Given iPod’s and iPhone’s transition to web almost everywhere, I think Apple’s setting the stage for another paradigm shift. Apple wants to own the cloud. This makes sense for Safari on Windows, too.
I also agree with the other posters. An insightful first post is a tad hard to take somehow. nycnikato, could you please revel in pubescent glory somehow to take the edge off your words? Maybe a rage against some sort of established norm? political vitriol? Anything, really…
It’s only polite.
MW “expect,” As in “Expect less from a first post.”
WOW SHOCK AND AWE!
The new apple web apps is AMAZING OMG! I am soo happy excited! Now I can do exacly what I have been doing from day one! “I-DAY” Ignore us day! WOOT! Thanks apple for making us a web link! WOW!
Thank for not charging us for it too! lol
Meh. It’ll be news if they ever open up the iPhone to native apps, not crummy web apps that don’t work whenever you are away from WiFi hotspots.
MDN word: Perform, as in in web apps don’t.
Okay children, quit griping about no third party apps for your iPhones.
I’m sure there are many more to come!
Does any of these apps have sound? What about the games, are they all soundless?
Web Apps Suck! Give us a legitimate iPhone SDK Apple! Quit trying to bullshit your customers with these bogus browser based apps that run only slightly slower than molasses.
WAAAAAAAA
good thing the vast majority who will buy this phone don’t care about this third party shite
Hey Ron,
Do you use up paid minutes when you surf the web on your iPhone?
@ron
To answer your question more directly: The iPhone AT&T;plan comes with unlimited Edge internet connections. Time on web apps do not utilize cell call minutes.
Thank God!
Now will all these freak’n people shut up about hacking the phones and crying for webapp’s. Apple had a plan, everyone just needs to calm down and now rejoice.
Thank you Apple!
Web apps were a lousy idea when Steve announced them in January, and they haven’t gotten any better. Hopefully native apps will come soon.
These apps work great with Wi-Fi on the iPod touch! I created a separate bookmarks bar folder just for all the ones I added. ESPN podcasts, weather and some games. The best is Yeah.No.Totally which can be used as a sort of start page for the iPod touch (or iPhone) browser.
This is a farce. Tried several … slow, buggy, useless. Apple needs to get their head out of their ass and open up the root for real apps.
about a year ago, all the blogs were saying how web apps would be the future. Now a company has taken a step towards that, everybody is bitchin’ about it haha
The existing “apps” that are already on the iPhone (clock, calculator, stock, weather etc.) are so akin to Widgets, you’d think that there would be an easy transition from Apple MAC widgets to Apple iPhone “apps” (if you want to call them that). There are quite a few Widgets I’d love to have access to on my iPhone, any speculation (or enlightened insight) as to the possibility of this happening (or not) anytime in the future?
To add, AppleMatters addressed the whole “lock-out” issue in regards to the brick (aka, ZUNE) and how M$ is taking the entire opposite direction and approach. The writer of the article leads with… Why The Zune Will Outdo The iPod. Not that I agree, but an interesting read.
I want a web app that lets me cut and paste!!!
http://www.apple.com/feedback
Tell it to the boss.
(Already have….)
Read this and weep
http://www.securityevaluators.com/iphone/bh07.pdf
To bad that as Apple is pushing web apps, they have killed/squandered their WebObjects technology. They (and WebObjects) should be dominating the conversation with web app development, in Enterprise IT and on their own iPhone. I’ll never understand it – they are pushing web apps but not their own web app platform. Insane.
I saw what his stupid PowerPoint presentation says.
With root access to his own Mac he broke in to the supposedly secure Leopard OS X 10.5.
Not only that, several iPhone hackers broke into OS X on their own iPhones.
Listen, securityman. Any idiot can hack their own computer. Believe it or not, they can also erase the complete contents of their own hard drive.
Go ahead, try it, we’ll wait.
web apps on the iPod touch are useless…… Unless you like only using your iPod for an hour or two.. because that’s how long the batter will last with wifi on.
Using web cache is useless too… considering how often Safari crashes.
Last night I’m at dinner with my wife when the waiter notices my iPhone and asks if I like it. “Of course!” says I, as I begin to launch into the requisite table-side demo. Then says the waiter, “oh, I have one too!” and proceeds to produce his iPhone, absolutely LOADED with third-party software. Well, you can imagine our surprise.
I try to politely explain to our waiter that Apple does not officially support these on that. — He looks at me quizically. “What do you mean?” says he, “I’ve got them all right here!”
After checking to see he is running pre 1.1.1 version software, I give him the “fair-warning” speech about how if he runs the system updater, all his third party software will be summarily wiped clean.
Then today, Apple web apps are announced. I guess I need to go back to the waiter and let him know, unless he’s already heard.
The kicker is this: he’s a college kid who only uses Dell computers, yet he has a Mac in his pocket. Talk about a Trojan Horse loosed on the unsuspecting public!
iPhone is absolutely poised to become the biggest game changer in recent tech history.
Everything, and more, is proceeding according to plan.
HAZZAH!!
I worry that Apple will miss this golden opportunity to have the iPhone absolutely take over the smart phone space by its refusal to allow third party apps on the iPhone. While I understand keeping the iPhone’s system secure to avoid crashes, etc., this harkens back to the dark ages of Apple when it was very difficult for developers to write software for the Mac because Apple wouldn’t provide good APIs, insisted on different ports unique to the Mac, etc.
If there’s one thing that history has shown in computers and devices – the best ones don’t always win. The most flexible device usually wins, mainly because it can do most things pretty well even though it doesn’t do anything particularly great.
The iPhone has the chance to be the phone which does many things very well/great, but adoption will be hindered or people will look in another direction if they can’t get certain features they want.
For example, some people want/need to be able to edit Word/Excel files on their mobile devices (though I don’t understand why). If the iPhone continues to be unable to do this (which is striclty due to Apple’s refusal to allow this functionality), those people will buy something else. And that’s lost opportunity for Apple.
apple.com/webapps not apple.com/iphone/webapps
Because the future of these web APPS does not only focus on iPHONE.
It’s also for iPodTouch and future devices like Apples MacSlate.
Apple done it right!
David Duncan
What about “cut and pasting”. Can’t Ap-ple take care of first things first?