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One of the best answers here. Initially, if you watch the WWDC keynote, and if you look on how to make "apps" for iPhone Software 1.0, you'll see that Apple had
by dimillian 9y ago
One of the best answers here. Initially, if you watch the WWDC keynote, and if you look on how to make "apps" for iPhone Software 1.0, you'll see that Apple had a website to teach you on how to make "webclips". So iPhone app would be mobile site you pin to your springboard and that was it.
The experience was painfully slow and clunky, so by iPhone Software 2.0 they rushed a native SDK. Which you could see it was rushed because it was very lacking and buggy at first.