OMEN
06-17-2007, 11:14 PM
The first Web 2.0 applications for the iPhone have begun surfacing, ahead of the iPod phone's debut on 29 June.
Just a few days after Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed that developers would, after all, be able to develop iPhone software, just as long as it is capable of running in the Safari Web browser.
David Cann has created an iPhone interface for the social news website, Digg.com. A fully functional demonstration version running in a standard desktop browser simulates the multitouch iPhone interface using the more traditional click-and-drag of the mouse. More than one person has commented that it actually works better than the standard Digg interface.
Neven Mrgan has put together an iPhone shopping list app, One Trip. From a list of categories
you select the items you need to buy and these are automatically added to the list. OneTrip has all the attributes of the kind of a simple, elegant and effective app that it is possible to imagine Jobs envisaging for iPhone.
Mrgan said that when he first posted OneTrip the Web page took half a million hits 'in a matter of hours'.
'You know how it is - when you start a project and plan it out so it can take a slashdotting, only your two friends and a cat use it,' he joked. 'When you make something in two days for your own amusement, it explodes....'
Mrgan believes that the two key developers of this kind of application will be Google, and Apple itself.
"One of the loudest groans about the WWDC spin was that Apple is being insincere - if web apps on iPhone are such a great idea, why aren't they developing them?," he wrote on his OneTrip blog. I think they are. They might offer a simple widget or two at first, but the best project for Apple to web-ify is .Mac. It's a promising system, but it hasn't been updated in a very long time... except its webmail program, which is now all Web 2.0-hip (typical 'toe in the water' move by Apple). And if this meant running .Mac services on Windows - well, we've all seen how Apple feels about handing out ice water to people in hell."
MacUser
Just a few days after Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed that developers would, after all, be able to develop iPhone software, just as long as it is capable of running in the Safari Web browser.
David Cann has created an iPhone interface for the social news website, Digg.com. A fully functional demonstration version running in a standard desktop browser simulates the multitouch iPhone interface using the more traditional click-and-drag of the mouse. More than one person has commented that it actually works better than the standard Digg interface.
Neven Mrgan has put together an iPhone shopping list app, One Trip. From a list of categories
you select the items you need to buy and these are automatically added to the list. OneTrip has all the attributes of the kind of a simple, elegant and effective app that it is possible to imagine Jobs envisaging for iPhone.
Mrgan said that when he first posted OneTrip the Web page took half a million hits 'in a matter of hours'.
'You know how it is - when you start a project and plan it out so it can take a slashdotting, only your two friends and a cat use it,' he joked. 'When you make something in two days for your own amusement, it explodes....'
Mrgan believes that the two key developers of this kind of application will be Google, and Apple itself.
"One of the loudest groans about the WWDC spin was that Apple is being insincere - if web apps on iPhone are such a great idea, why aren't they developing them?," he wrote on his OneTrip blog. I think they are. They might offer a simple widget or two at first, but the best project for Apple to web-ify is .Mac. It's a promising system, but it hasn't been updated in a very long time... except its webmail program, which is now all Web 2.0-hip (typical 'toe in the water' move by Apple). And if this meant running .Mac services on Windows - well, we've all seen how Apple feels about handing out ice water to people in hell."
MacUser