Jobs' may have seen the light. iPhone might get 3rd party support/freedom!

[Genjinaro]

This could be the best news ihave ever heard about the phone, if it is factual. Jobs could have seriously failed the push of the iphone with limiting support to what current adapters in the Palm and WM feild rely on avidly, for lesser costs. This will open up the market for iphone bigtime, especially for AT&T's business users. I may just buy it and get the Foleo later. We'll see how Jobs manages with his new take on it.

[Ed Hardy]

Did you mean to attach a link to this?

[glorfindeal]

Unless you've been hiding, it is all over the internet. during the D conference, Jobs said that 3rd party applications will be supported. they just need to find a way of doing it without sacrificing the security of the iPhone.

Glor

[Genjinaro]

Right lol, I would've done so anyway but Im on my m620's Opera mini, Id be flipping the phone into oblivion

[Ed Hardy]

Yeah, I found it. Still, a link is always nice.

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/0...rd-party-apps/

[Curious Cat]

I've been answering this objection to the iPhone since it was first announced. There never was any hardware reason that the iPhone couldn't support 3rd party applications. It has always been just a matter of deciding between reliability and openness. Allowing 3rd party software on the iPhone after getting Apples' scrutiny to make sure it doesn't adversely affect the iPhone has always been the logical outcome.

[Curious Cat]

From a blog of the keynote address by Jobs-

"The development environment will be based on Safari – Web 2.0 and AJAX apps. They’ll be able to make calls, sent e-mails, etc. Instant distribution – just put them on your Internet server. They’re also secure, and are sandboxed on the iPhone, Jobs points out. There’s not SDK – you can go live on June 29."

Link

[berylrb]

Here's a little more context to what CC is talking about

One last thing ….

He’s talking about the iPhone. It ships 18 days from today, and goes on sale at 6 p.m., he says. “What about developers?” Jobs says. He says Apple has come up with a sweet solution for letting developers make apps for the iPhone while keeping the iPhone secure.

The development environment will be based on Safari – Web 2.0 and AJAX apps. They’ll be able to make calls, sent e-mails, etc. Instant distribution – just put them on your Internet server. They’re also secure, and are sandboxed on the iPhone, Jobs points out. There’s not SDK – you can go live on June 29.

Scott Forstall, vp of iPhone software, comes up to demo an iPhone app that uses web technologies. (This should cause some shivers at Adobe Systems (ADBE), since this approach sort of undermines its Apollo effort. On the other hand, I assume Adobe Flex will help people develop these apps.)

Forstall is demoing “Apple Directory,” an internal address book app that lets people sift through Apple’s corporate directory. (It seems to me that this is a somewhat limiting approach to iPhone apps; there will be bandwidth and coverage issues, and I wonder whether this stuff will work well when the iPhone’s signal is weak.)

Forstall points out that the apps can interact with the built-in Google (GOOG) Maps application. This (perhaps unintentionally) underlines the fact that Google is a first-class iPhone developer, and others are not. If this web-based app development strategy is so great, then why didn’t Google do it that way? Why are Google Maps a built-in iPhone application? Maybe there are answers to that, and I’m sure developers will be asking the questions.

from Utility Belt Blog

[berylrb]

Hey what happened to the WooHoo's!

so many on this Apple forum were naysaying the iPhone because of no 3rd party app's and now it can be done through Safari, web based apps, I thought there would be thunderous applause! what's up with that?

[Adama D. Brown]

I think a lot of people--myself included--are leery of what they mean by web applications, whether it will further shackle the user to a data plan, and exactly how useful these apps will be.