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NEWS: Apple to premit 3rd-pary iPone apps

John Navas

2007-06-11, 3:33 pm

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6742439.stm>

Mr Jobs also gave the greenlight to third-party development of new
applications for its forthcoming iPhone mobile phone.

In a u-turn from a previously stated policy, he said developers would
be able to build web applications for the device that "extend the
capabilities of iPhone... but keep the iPhone secure".

Instead of having to test each and every new application themselves,
Apple will allow developers to build web applications for the phone
which run inside the device's web browser built on existing web
standards.

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John Navas

2007-06-11, 10:33 pm

"Apple Underwhelms"
<http://www.forbes.com/technology/20...
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Jobs described the decision to allow developers to create Web-based
applications for the iPhone as a "sweet story," and used Google as an
example of a company whose products are able to succeed purely via a
Web browser.

He didn't convince the crowd. "This is almost no story," said Apple
software developer Wolf Rentzsch. "I didn't even think they could
offer us so little."

Rentzsch and most other developers wanted to be able to program
software that could be installed on the iPhone and take advantage of
its operating system. Failing that, they had hoped to be able to run
"plug-ins" in the Web-based programs they could develop for the
iPhone (see "Developers To Jobs: Give Me My iPhone").

<http://www.forbes.com/home/wireless..._0608apple.html>

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