I liked it. It’s interesting and really understandable even for Junior Developer.

I hate you guys…

WTF was StevieWonder thinking? Has he lost the plot completely?

Web browsers have been proven in the past to be way more hackable than embedded OSes could ever hope to be. Now add in the fact that Apple has its underlying iPhone APIs exposed (like MS’s active-x) through the safari browser and you have a hack-fest like no other!!

What the hell is the point of marketing this as “more” safe??? Does Apple really know they are doing? Maybe they should consult and listen to ther client base and current OSX developers instead of deciding what is and is not good for them and they just have to shut up and take it like a bunch of brainless morons, which they are most definitely not!

Apple is perfecting their Master & Slave attitude by the day!

Wake up Apple – you screwed your client base and yourselves irreversably this time :)

“As a consumer I’d be furious at Apple for allowing my iPhone to come to a halt because of a bad iPhone app.”

“The very last thing I want is to find the iPhone has gone kaplunk or the AT&T Network has conked because some developer wrote an errant program.”

THESE are the most stupid commnets yet I’ve come across. I guess people with money are allowed to be retarded.

So far 10,000s of apps have been developed for Symbian and MS Mobile.
They have NOT crashed any phone communications EVER!

Now there may be some applications that are crap but you’re gonna come across those for the price of having so much variety.

“you’d be furious” ? um restart it and then unintall the program when you get home ya MACTARD! Your buys a BETA RELEASE, do you really think THAT is not going to lock up at some point in time?

Mactards= entertainment for all ! lol

Now, I’m assuming that the Safari in the iPhone is going to have much more control over the iPhone’s OS if it is to run these javascript applications. Given the strongly insecure state of Safari, I would be much more concerned with someone finding an exploit in Safari.

Depending on how much access Safari has to the rest of the OS, it would be very possible for a remote user to read your emails, get your contacts, view your calendar, etc.

All of this could easily be going on in the background, because the applications are stored on a remote server.

Running Javascript iPhone apps in Safari seems like a giant mess. I’ve installed plenty of Java applications on my i760, and I have yet to have any major problem with it “bricking” a phone.

And, on top of this, if you need a third party app which doesn’t require internet access, it is still going to need to connect to the remote server to run. Say, you have a special calculator application. You are at a place you don’t get reception. You won’t be able to use your application simply because you don’t have any net access.

And I’m also assuming that the dataplans aren’t unlimited? If they aren’t you’re going to end up paying a lot of money. This could cause massive problems for ATTs already slow and stressed data network.

This is a terrible idea, but I wouldn’t expect anything else from Apple. The macfags and nubs are going to hop on this like crazy, regardless.

I guess it just makes it easier for people like me to take advantage of people like you.

Perhaps this will change, but for now all of these decisions, which people assume are for the sake of a timely product launch, are most likely for carrier profit purposes.

Then starting an app would execute Safari in back end and go to local server and run the app locally.

Anything else that bugs you? You should understand that all applications will be online sooner or later….

Aesthetics are important, but they do not, ever, govern information design. Put a button where a button is useful. If your design needs IA to change to accommodate it, your design is not up to snuff.

Windows Mobile would be my first choice. You can use .NET or native C code, there are a plethora of tried and tested devices available with any combination of features, and there’s nothing that the iPhone can do that something from HTC can’t do better.

Palm would be second – there are a ton of them still out there.
Symbian isn’t a bad bet either, though you’re mostly just targeting Nokia with that.

Honestly, the iPhone isn’t a serious attempt at an open, extensible platform.

Think about this: if all the applications are web-based and Apple insists you run them off your own server, people are going to be paying for connection charges just to run an application. That may be fine and dandy in some parts of the States where you can get unlimited data, but the majority of the world still has you paying obscene amounts of money for data. In Vancouver, I pay $10 a month to get 5 megabytes of data. That wouldn’t last ten minutes of use for a real app.

Second to that point is the fact that the iPhone only has EDGE, the 2.75G GSM data solution. It’s not bad and is widely available, but it’s a little pokey for heavy application use. The demonstrations of Google Maps and streaming video that you’ve seen are undoubtedly over Wi-Fi, not cellular data.

In short – it’s a fashionista device for the hip crew to bandy about. People serious about having real mobile capabilities are going to stick with devices that don’t lock you down. I have a 400 MHz processor in my device – let me use it to process shit, rather than the network, thanks.