*Source: InfoWorld (
http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/ar...e_out_o.html)*
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At the Worldwide Developer Conference on June 11 2007, Steve Jobs paved the way for the June 29 delivery of iPhone by telling a crowd of some 4,000 that where developers are concerned, iPhone is a handheld Safari browser. "You don’t even need an SDK," Steve said before he invoked the magic phrase "AJAX and Web 2.0," to let the press know that iPhone is open to all applications that take advantage of these state of the art paradigms. Steve cited Salesforce.com as the exemplar of the type of Web-based application one would run on an iPhone.
That sounds pretty until you realize that of all the ways to write and package software, none is less suited to mobile use than a Web application.
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