Apple turning iPhone into a smartphone?
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 19, 2007 at 10:10am
Apple’s announcement that it will release a software development kit for the iPhone in February will, in effect, turn the communications device into a smartphone, iPhone into a smartphone, Joseph Palenchar writes in a TWICE article.
The plan reverses Apple’s previous announcement that only third-party Web 2.0-based applications, which reside on the Web, would be allowed to run on the iPhone, he says. At the time, Apple contended that Web 2.0 apps “look and behave just like the applications built into iPhone” and opening up the phone to native applications would make it vulnerable to viruses, malware, and privacy attacks.
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Louis Wheeler Says:
Define again for me what a Smart Phone is?
Now, they will say that the iPhone isn’t a Smart Phone because it doesn’t have Adobe Flash. H.264 is much better than Flash. The iPhone doesn’t need it; Flash is a pain in the behind on the web.
Posted on October 19, 2007
dave Says:
Actually, they only started saying that now, with the announcement of the SDK. Previously, they said to only create ‘web apps’ that are only accessible through Safari for the iPhone. And that ‘native’ third party applications would bring down AT&T;’s data network. And they actively discouraged the creation of these native apps by making it non-trivial to create, install and run non-Apple applications on the iPhone.
The only public notice that Apple would eventually support ‘native’ applications was when they announced the SDK.
Posted on October 19, 2007
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J. Scott Anderson Says:
How many times are the pundits going to get it wrong. Apple never said they they would not allow third-party applications on the iPhone. They only said that they wanted it done right and would take their time with it.
Posted on October 19, 2007