iPhone Web applications are appearing, two weeks before launch
Several web sites are reporting the availability of a few web applications designed with the iPhone in mind.
Take OneTrip, for example (that link will only work correctly if you're using Safari). It's a "shopping list application" designed to be used on your iPhone, and while it's pretty basic, it does give an idea of what can be achieved. Not exactly a full-blown application like many were hoping for, but not useless either (well, unless you're Vince Veneziani.
There's also an iPhone version of Digg and an iPhone version of Twitter. Both of these applications suggest that developers may well end up creating iPhone-friendly interfaces for popular social networking, bookmarking, and Web 2.0 sites. Of course it should be possible to run the full version of Digg on iPhone's version of Safari, but the scaled down interface may work better. It provides a choice, at least.
This will sound boring, but once again I say that developers should be careful. It's one thing for Steve Jobs to announce the iPhone's first development solution, but until developers actually get hold of the iPhone, they can't guarantee everything will work in the same way as in Safari on a Mac (or Windows).
It won't stop this being another avenue for those wishing to jump on the iPhone bandwagon. "Hey look at me, I wrote an iPhone application."
"Hello world!"
Yes, yes, very good.
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