Dear Mr. Jobs, That's Retarded
Coming from the WWDC, Apple announced it's going to allow third party Web 2.0 applications. Really? Are you saying that previous to this that Safari wasn't going to support even Javascript? Why thank you Mr. Jobs that you are now going to allow the basics of most browsers for years.
And how are Web 2.0 applications supposed to be iPhone applications. Last time I checked, you can't use any of that multi-touch shit that's so 'revolutionary' with javascript and HTML. Or that Web 2.0 apps haven't existed for phone previous to this. What about twitter? That's Web 2.0 and I can totally use that on my phone.
And what about games? I haven't seen anything about games on the iPhone. I sure as hell can't make a good game solely with javascript and html. I could try, but I don't think it would any where near as good as a native java version. But really, why aren't there any games? I guess you'll be too busy using Google Maps to be busy playing games.
This like if Nintendo said, hey, if people want to make games for the Wii, do it from the Opera web browser. We don't need that whole disk and game thing anymore. Everything is done with AJAX now. But instead, Nintendo has a $2000 SDK so more people could make games.
But hey, I should be glad, since now I can make applications that 'seamlessly access the iPhone services'. Great, I can now visit a site and not only worry about it trying to give me malware, I now have to worry about it making calls to Russia on my behalf.
But, I'm sure they secured it so that won't be possible. Let's just ignore that 1 day after Safari for Windows was released, multiple vulnerabilites were found. I'm sure iPhone's Safari will be so much secure. Probably only 2 vulnerabilities will be found the first day, and that's only because only a few can afford or get the damn thing.
Here's about how far I see this going. Google Reader for the iPhone. They already have a Wii version, so an iPhone one is right up their alley. Probably some company will get millions in financing to build a solely iPhone web app, only to realize that only 5% will know about it, and of that 5, only 0.1% might use it. And when that 0.1% is out of half a million, you're looking at 500 users. And if it isn't free, which probably is the only way to make money from it, drop that user count to 50.
Sorry Jobs. I don't buy the hype. Have fun selling all those slightly fancy iPods for ridiculous amounts of money.