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- lo0ol, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Gruber is no stranger to writing with strong opinions, of course. And while this particular article might come off as being initially negative about the WWDC announcements, he does have some interesting things to say:
"It’s great that iPhone seems to have a killer Safari web browser. No doubt there are going to be some terrific web apps targeting iPhone. But there are a ton of great ideas for iPhone software that can’t be done as web apps."
I thought this was a particularly interesting thought. As primarily a web developer, I thought it was pretty nifty that you could write apps for the iPhone like this and have native controls and tap into the phone's functionality. 37signals already mentioned on their blog that they're interested in looking into this. But on the other hand, I can see how it'd be a pain that you can't get a home screen icon, that you can't tap into on-board storage (presumably), that you can't use it offline, and so on. Makes you wonder if there will ever be something in the pipeline that gives developers more control (although on that line, Jobs mentioned at D5 he wanted something out by the end of the year, presuming that Safari isn't the method he was talking about).- ravuya, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Apple considering JavaScript as anything close to a competitor for the excellent Compact Framework found on modern PocketPC smartphones is completely laughable.
But then again, Apple's relationship to .NET has been pretty much non-existent. Which is great, because the first thing I think of when I think of "application that makes money" is "application written only in Objective-C because that's the only language Apple has decent Xcode support for, then wedged through GNUStep until it looks halfway like a budgetware Windows application missing 90% of the language features".
- ravuya, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Apple considering JavaScript as anything close to a competitor for the excellent Compact Framework found on modern PocketPC smartphones is completely laughable.
- koregaonpark, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I think Gruber's dead on. What are the so-called "secret features"? A new interface and CoverFlow in the Finder? Seriously? Microsoft wants to copy something that's already been in iTunes since Vista launched and put it in Windows Explorer?
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