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The iPhone SDK announcement – The big takeaways from today’s news

The big takeaways from today’s announcement of iPhone native SDK availability in February: 1. Partly this is a preemptive strike for the holiday season – remove a reason for some people not to buy, and take away the only real “down” side to the iPhone story in consumers minds post-launch. Instead turn it into another [...]

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Wed, October 17 2007 » Imported, Uncategorized » No Comments

Where is the iPhone’s answer to Adobe AIR, or Google Gears?

Adobe’s AIR platform has shown that the web development model is fundamentally capable of delivering applications every bit as rich as native platform apps. Hence the outcry over the idea of web applications as the primary development model for the iPhone is overblown. Yes, the current iPhone development environment sucks but it’s important to keep [...]

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Wed, October 3 2007 » Imported, Uncategorized » No Comments