Jesus... these guys (37 signals) are so pumped up on the fact that web apps (their area of expertise) is the only thing this phone will be able to do...
Safari? SDK? Wooo... If I want to roll out my own address book version for an iPhone, how the hell will I do that with Safari? Or at least some address book integration? Or how about making/receiving calls programmatically? How about using any of iPhone hardware to do anything?
For 37signals, and companies like them, the ones who build ta-da lists and write books on how to build ta-da lists, that is a very welcome announcement.
But for software engineers/entrepreneurs this is pretty sad news...
According to Jobs' keynote, there will be hooks for the iPhone hardware, you will be able to make calls and all that. Exactly how extensive it is remains to be seen, but there will be something.
You can already create links in web pages that will dial a phone number when activated with mobile phone browsers. Similarly, I assume that the email integration is going to be basically "mailto:" links. Maybe they will have support for HTML 5 features like like INPUT TYPE="email" as well.
a href="wtai://wp/mc;16504808000"
a href="tel:+358-555-1234567"
Safari? SDK? Wooo... If I want to roll out my own address book version for an iPhone, how the hell will I do that with Safari? Or at least some address book integration? Or how about making/receiving calls programmatically? How about using any of iPhone hardware to do anything?
For 37signals, and companies like them, the ones who build ta-da lists and write books on how to build ta-da lists, that is a very welcome announcement.
But for software engineers/entrepreneurs this is pretty sad news...