Re:IPhone =/= Debian app
by derefr on Friday June 18, 2010 @11:36PM
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Jobs never liked the idea of Apps in the first place (probably because he knew it was unsustainable); he was fully prepared to go with a pure-webapp strategy until developers revolted. He's probably trying to get back out of that market as quickly as possible.
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Is that the case? I thought it was more of an issue of the SDK and the APIs not being ready at the time that they wanted to launch.
I can't imagine that Jobs hates the notion of apps.
On the other hand, I don't understand why anyone involved with the Mac platform, where uniform interfaces are a big deal and microcriticism of widgets is so common, would ever champion the Web as a platform.
Unsustainable, but 30% of every sale probably makes it worthwhile.