Posts tagged “web apps”

Apple's ban on intermediate platforms kills our hopes of building iPhone apps with web technologies. It's shortsighted: the web is the world's biggest development platform. Native apps are better now, but that won't last. The web always wins eventually. Until then, learn Objective-C.

PPK says iPhone devs should build web apps to avoid App Store gatekeeping, then walks it back due to missing APIs and no easy payment option. He's right that some apps could go web-based, but Apple's real power is their mobile payment solution. They should open that up independently.

Got six Pownce invites to give away. Not sure it beats Twitter without mobile alerts, and I can't figure out how to pronounce it. Get in touch if you want one.