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Sunday 30 September 2007

The truth was that the native app community was the most exciting thing going in not just the iPhone world, but pretty much the entire sphere of Apple. Plenty of Mac programmers who were excited about the prospect of writing for the iPhone turned their attention to hacking away at apps while waiting for Leopard to ship. And yet, Apple willfully ignored these developments, even to the point of making itself look ridiculous. Like when, at the iPod event earlier this month, Steve Jobs waxed enthusiastic about the iPhone Facebook web app; it was kind of like listening to someone rave about how zeppelins will change air travel forever. Requiem for a third-party iPhone app

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