Perhaps buried among the news of its interoperability with Microsoft Exchange is the fact that Apple will be treating the iPhone as a full-blown platform for development of mobile applications.
While it's not a fully open platform, it is possibly open enough to enable corporate developers and ISVs to build smartphone applications for the iPhone using JavaScript and CSS, Zack Urlocker explains in iPhone as a platform?
"The real power of the platform will be in what kind of applications are created," Urlocker writes. "One 'killer app' can make a platform successful if it solves the right problem for the right audience."
Posted by Tom Sullivan on March 17, 2008 08:33 AM
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