Did Web-Applications Fail on iPhone?
By now I’m sure you have heard that Apple will be releasing an iPhone SDK that will enable 3rd parties to create native applications. This is a pretty interesting development. Many of the investors that we presented Mojax to had concerns that our platform would be irrelevant as mobile phone browsers became more powerful and supported full AJAX. The iPhone is the first device that has all the requirements to run a full-fledged AJAX application. Apple even tried to “encourage” developers to create web-applications by telling developers that they had no other option. In spite of this, developers complained loudly about being restricted to the browser and did everything they could to “hack” the iPhone.
This confirms what I’ve always known … the browser is NOT a “silver bullet” for application development. It is quite amazing how far the limits have been pushed on the desktop, but even there some solutions are better handled as a native application. Why would this not also be true for a mobile device?
The future is bright for mobile applications … and you know Mojax will be there helping make it all possible!
