San Francisco (CA) - Apple has taken first steps to create a developer community around its upcoming iPhone platform.

 

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The iPhone in detail ...

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According to the company, the iPhone will be able to run to create Web 2.0-based applications and will allow programmers to develop applications that such as  can access the phones features  making a phone call, sending an email and displaying a location in Google Maps. Apple said that these applications can be fine tuned to behave “just like the applications built into iPhone” while keeping the rest of the phone “secure and reliable.”

The company did not specify which Web 2.0 technologies will be supported and which not, but mentioned that it expects these applications to be “far more interactive and responsive” than traditional web applications. “[They] 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,” Apple wrote in a press release.

web 2.0 ?

Jun 11, 2007 17:10     

From what I know you can write native apps for Symbian asa well as Windows Mobile so web 2.0 apps is not impressive at all. All phones support Java so you'll probably want to use that with the iPhone too.
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web2 = ajax?

Jun 12, 2007 00:34     

from what i can tell from both the keynote, and how my treo works. i am going to guess that the integration only works with html/javascript pages. this is why apple went with google apps like google maps. i think what happens is that it detects certain data formats and then links those to GET/POST pipes for other apps. i would go so far as to say that google helped them with this technology since there are a few google apps that do this quite well. my treo is also able to do this with phone numbers, as long as they are not in anything to complicated. i wonder how the iphone will handle flash and java.

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"Kinda Sorta Look like" Apps

Jun 12, 2007 12:57     

These "kinda sorta look like" Applications! Wow.
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