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Subject: Ahead of the Curve: Is iPhone out of business?
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ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: AHEAD OF THE CURVE
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
IS IPHONE OUT OF BUSINESS?
By Tom Yager
Posted June 13, 4:00 a.m. Pacific Time
Jobs tells developers that for them, iPhone is purely a portable browser.
Microsoft, Nokia, and RIM rejoice. At Macworld Expo in January 2007, Steve
Jobs told the crowd that Apple's upcoming mobile device, iPhone, runs OS X.
I think that it's an easy and reasonable leap from that statement to the
expectation that iPhone will be open to custom applications, an expectation
that I held and which I'm sure many developers shared. A Unix phone with
Apple's UI panache? Touch, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and mobile phone in one device?
I was ready to take a three month sabbatical from InfoWorld just to spelunk
around inside iPhone's APIs and its OS X core. Looks like I'll have to
continue to hone my mobile app development chops in the familiar domains of
BlackBerry, Symbian/Nokia, and Windows Mobile. 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...
More of this column at:
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