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Safari: The iPhone platform, and the platform period
Posted 11 June 2007 @ 11am in Uncategorized
As reported separately, Apple is encouraging developers who want to create iPhone applications to simply write Web applications (served through Internet and perhaps also stored locally on the iPhone). As also reported on our sister site MacFixIt, Safari is now available for Windows.So, it looks like Safari is now the platform on which iPhone development will take place. In fact, analyzing the situation further, Safari may be a new platform in and of itself. By controlling the Safari code-base and the standards it supports, Apple can in effect build its now OS-agnostic browser into a full-blown platform with the ability to serve powerful applications to every user of Mac OS X, Windows, and the iPhone.What do you think? Is Safari’s Apple’s newest platform?
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Posted by Ralph
11 June 2007 @ 4pm
I don’t think Developers will view Safari Mac/Win as a platform to develop to, because it constitutes a small % of the browsers in use. In other words, why would developers box themselves in with Safari-specific development, when they can write web 2.0 apps that run across all browsers?
For iPhone web applications it is different, as Safari opens the only channel to write apps for the device and tap into device capabilities.
Safari Windows is a play by Apple to expand overall Safari market share. But that is more about forcing web developers to be compatible with Safari than it is encouraging them to develop Safari Mac/Win -specific apps.