blog.wired.com— For all of the complaining that has tripped down the wire about Apple's total lack of an SDK for the iPhone, a couple of entrepreneurial developers have already created iPhone apps to try out in Safari.
Jun 13, 2007View in Crawl 4
This iPhone "API" thing is such a "the emperor has no clothes" situation. Basically THERE IS NO API... Jobs just sent the developers to create webapps! What a bad solution for what the developers were asking for.
No, we're going to be stuck with hardware keyboards because they're better than touchscreen keyboards. Touch typing is nearly impossible on a touchscreen because your fingers tend to drift with no tactile feedback. Maybe someday they'll invent something better, but that hasn't happened yet.
If I could indeed use web apps, why would it still be a paperweight? It can still do something... right?Maybe I'm looking too far into this...or maybe he's using insults that were old 4 months ago...
Sadly, Colin, all the "good OS programming" in the world, won't stop someone from writing code bad enough to crash the system. Existing SmartPhone's are proof of that. I think Apple's compromise is a decent one. We've begun listing apps in our forum showcase, and plan to do much more by the time the week is out: <a class="user" href="http://forums.figma.com/forumdisplay.php?f=15">http://forums.figma.com/forumdisplay.php?f=15</a>
Closed AccountJun 14, 2007
The Gtalk was already done by Google Fluid so it should fit the iPhone browser<a class="user" href="http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/popout">http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/popout</a>
noahhowardJun 14, 2007
Are we really going to be stuck with fricking hardware keyboards for the rest of eternity because people can't learn anything new?
acorpJun 14, 2007
This iPhone "API" thing is such a "the emperor has no clothes" situation. Basically THERE IS NO API... Jobs just sent the developers to create webapps! What a bad solution for what the developers were asking for.
honestpenJun 14, 2007
No flash?! Is Adobe going to release an iPhone flash solution?
ethergnatJun 14, 2007
No, we're going to be stuck with hardware keyboards because they're better than touchscreen keyboards. Touch typing is nearly impossible on a touchscreen because your fingers tend to drift with no tactile feedback. Maybe someday they'll invent something better, but that hasn't happened yet.
blandymanJun 15, 2007
If I could indeed use web apps, why would it still be a paperweight? It can still do something... right?Maybe I'm looking too far into this...or maybe he's using insults that were old 4 months ago...
cleverboyJun 18, 2007
Sadly, Colin, all the "good OS programming" in the world, won't stop someone from writing code bad enough to crash the system. Existing SmartPhone's are proof of that. I think Apple's compromise is a decent one. We've begun listing apps in our forum showcase, and plan to do much more by the time the week is out: <a class="user" href="http://forums.figma.com/forumdisplay.php?f=15">http://forums.figma.com/forumdisplay.php?f=15</a>