Apple allows iPhone to run third-party web applications

Posted on June 13th, 2007 by Tadd Rosenfeld

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a reversal on his decision to lock developers out of the iPhone. He announced during his keynote address at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco that developers of third-party applications will be able to create Web applications for the iPhone using Apple’s browser, Safari. But Apple isn’t providing a software development kit or support community for iPhone applications at this point.

In our opinion, the two greatest weaknesses of the iPhone relative to Treo smartphones are its lack of support for third party software and lack of a built-in keyboard. Particularly enterprise users demand physical thumb boards for emails. Third party applications are more important to the consumer market. At least to a small extent, apple seems to be addressing one of these two issue.

ZDNet: Apple opens iPhone to developers–kind of

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