Safari and iPhone

Yesterday's Steve Jobs announcement was the sort of thing British politicians excel at: re-announcing things in a new way, so it looks like there's something new to report.

We knew that the iPhone runs Safari. Therefore it isn't a huge surprise that Steve suggests that we develop apps for the iPhone using Ajax and HTML. What is surprising is that people should fall for the "iPhone is open to developers" schtick. Well, yeah! What will be interesting is whether we get Apple style widgets to play with or not.

As a side note, David Card rightly blogs that the release of Safari for Windows is designed to increase the developer pool for the iPhone. (Thanks to the rather more alert Ian Betteridge for drawing this to my attention).

And snapback sucks. There. I said something bad about Apple.

UPDATE: it looks like Mr Daring Fireball wasn't fooled...