The Syncing Apple An Exploration of Technology and Devices

iPhone Development- Old School

There was immediate and critical response to Steve Job's announcement of the SDK for iPhone.... use html. But is Apple on to something? Forcing eager developers to use the open standards of the web? Forsaking almightly Flash? No IDE? Apple seemed by many to be channeling the Reality Distortion Field at full blast. But the more I read about this, especially in regards to dumping Flash (and I don't think Apple will release it for iPhone) it seems that Apple may be helping foster a new, more open, standards-based category of web applications-- freed from the sluggish, cpu hogging stinking pile of crap that is Flash. Because what has been happening so far, and so rapidly, is amazing to me. A growing hot bed of activity is the google groups organized by iPhoneWebDev. How hot is this? So hot that a few old skool Newton developers are kicking around with web apps for iPhone. Both Hardy Macia and Serg Koren have posted recently, and I'm not surprised that they are embracing the iPhone development as it stands now. Javascript is probably pretty easy compared to NewtonScript.

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