Yesterdays Apple Hot News was that there will be an iPhone SDK available in February. That one took me by surprise. I’ve been pretty vocal about saying that I thought Apple was smart in only supporting Web app development on the phone.
I can definitely think of a few apps that would be great to have native on the phone, mostly so they can integrate with the other native apps – like an LDAP directory client that could be used with the contacts list.
But I still think that for most applications the browser is the interface, and that’s particularly true on the phone where even when you don’t have WiFi you still have cellular connectivity.
Opinions?
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Good point about connectivity, though I suspect that we’ll see Apple implement something similar to Google Gears for Safari, allowing offline state saving for web apps.