Safari: iPhone Development Platform
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as evidence that Jobs originally intended web apps to be the iPhone's app model.
What it is
A short PCWorld news clip from WWDC 2007 in which Steve Jobs announces Safari as the development platform for iPhone apps. Developers could build web apps with access to calling, maps and email.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2020 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Cites RubberShoes · 2020-08 · on “Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap”
What's funny is how much friction and persuasion it took to get them to actually do the App Store. Steve was hellbent on WebApps and I hope the history books recognize how much influence jailbreakers had in shifting the discussion to native apps [this video]
Cites chx · 2022-10 · on “Stadia died because no one trusts Google”
Jobs initially wanted people to build web apps [this video] and the app store only became available for the second generation iPhone (which was called the iPhone 3G). The next year, the 3GS added HSDPA support which made online browsing pretty smooth. Combined with apps, it was finally ready for massive success.
Cites midasuni · 2024-02 · on “It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU”
> Apple just made their true target crystal clear: they have always been aiming at web capabilities: Not what Jobs said [this video] Originally there wasn’t an SDK at all.