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I was not aware of that - I'm pretty sure I didn't watch the keynote. My impression was that they were trying to encourage people to provide web services as the

by halo 17y ago

I was not aware of that - I'm pretty sure I didn't watch the keynote. My impression was that they were trying to encourage people to provide web services as their apps and that's why no SDK was available from day 1. I think creating a web-driven SDK would have been good thing, if nothing else to increase the development opportunities of non-Mac users.

DLWormwood 17y ago
You can still make web tech only apps for the iPhone... they just can't be code-signed or FairPlay stamped, hence, you can't sell them on the App Store. (The ones that were developed before the app store went live either were freeware or tried to resurrect the classic shareware model.) (Well, technically, you can, but you do it by creating a stub ObjC wrapper around a WebKit view and point it at your HTML content... but that's not satisfying enough for most users, since you lose some UI functionality, like multitouch and sensor detection that way.)