Safari Is The iPhone Developer Platform
June 11th, 2007It’s official. Want to build applications for the iPhone? Safari is the solution. Web Standards is the SDK.
As I wrote about earlier this month, and this year, this is how you do it. It’s standards based, it’s pretty, and it’s the future.
Apple announced their iPhone extensions, there’s lots of integration points to make web apps first class on iPhone. Here are a few things you can do:
- Dial phone numbers.
- Send e-mail.
- Link to built-in maps.
All of the web developers on the planet just became iPhone developers. Ladies and gentlemen, here comes the Mobile Internet Revolution.
June 11th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Still, I don’t get it. iPhone is not 3G phone, it’s EDGE, so how will you make road trip across the USA and Apple could guarntee your weby twoy apps will be available to you in a slick fashion ?
Where’s monetisation for the developers ? Web 2.0 mobile bust…
June 11th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
I actually am in favor of using web pages for apps, and do so for a living. That way, the OS is almost irrelevant.
But if you don’t have a standard browser across all mobile platforms, you’re not going to get a critical mass of developers.
After all, people don’t write web apps for Apple desktops instead of native apps…
June 15th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
But if you don’t have a standard browser across all mobile platforms, you’re not going to get a critical mass of developers.
September 12th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Thanks. Good information !
June 17th, 2010 at 5:26 am
Hi, danke Bezüglich deines Beitrags.