Comments on: Apple dismounts from high horse, approves 3rd Party Browsers

By: NJ Web Design

NJ Web Design — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:42:25 +0000

i dont think you can get IE for iphone.. gl

By: tutela

tutela — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:55:16 +0000

hi,

Where can I find IE for Iphone, on Itunes, or Microsoft Website ?
Thanks

Fred
http://www.omniscoloris.fr

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By: MacTalk Podcast - Episode 57 - Much Obliged - MacTalk Forums

MacTalk Podcast - Episode 57 - Much Obliged - MacTalk Forums — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:14:24 +0000

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By: victor

victor — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:04:49 +0000

The fee was an accounting requirement. Check your facts before you post.

By: gan

gan — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:03:28 +0000

exactly
no way be “3rd party browsers” like firefox and chrome

By: Puhleeze

Puhleeze — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:13:05 +0000

Nice research Greg.
These kinds of apps have always been allowed in the app store.
1Password has been in the app store since July 17.
Cooliris has been in the app store since October 22. Both are alternate Webkit based browsers.

By: Oy Vey

Oy Vey — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:55:55 +0000

Google must have put a lot of pressure on Apple. Expect an announcement very soon for Google Chrome on the iPhone.

By: gene

gene — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:49:14 +0000

these are not “alternate browsers” !

they are just iphone apps that call UIWebView* – the native webkit component – with some external API calls (to prevent screen orientation change, hide the “chrome” and add bookmarking – “tabbing” )

got me excited for nothing.

By: Jim Dittmer

Jim Dittmer — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:49:07 +0000

To defend Apple for just one second; as a businessman I know that launching a product, feature, or service for the first time is treacherous. In an industry where everything is hacked and broken before most of us can even get to the store and buy it and where many of those same enthusiasts whine and whinge (loudly and ubiquitously) about the most esoteric flaws and limitations; it is perfectly understandable that they would seek to have their system stressed as little as possible by applications beyond their control. Give them time, it’ll open up. Let Apple insure the user experience is solid and positive before we rail against them for not allowing every app created by every programmer to have access to the core of their system!

By: Jim Dittmer

Jim Dittmer — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:28:37 +0000

Hey Jash, wouldn’t Firefox on the iPhone be iPhirefox?

By: Sri

Sri — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:49:47 +0000

Does this mean developers having to worry about browser incompatibilitiy issues on the iPhone too?

By: Mind Smack

Mind Smack — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:20:11 +0000

Apple always fascinates, I hope Steve Jobs is healthy. We need his mind in this world :)

By: Daniel Buchner

Daniel Buchner — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:49:24 +0000

Big second on that one! If MS pulled this ‘only our browser on our phone’ shit – they did, remember the ‘only IE native on Windows’ anti-trust of the 90’s? – they would have the Justice Department, the fair-weather Public, tons of other software manufacturers, Green Peace, the Democratic Party, Mickey Mouse, Tom…and Jerry… all eager to pick at them like vultures for being so villainous. Now that the iPhone (which is going to get stomped like a pumpkin on Halloween by the Pre!) is the #1 best selling phone in America I want to see the Government go all Sherman Antitrust on their ass.

Do any of you remember Apple charging Airport Extreme wifi router buyers a fee for firmware to ‘unlock’ draft-N speed: http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/01/15/6637

I swear this level of double standard is something available only to his Steveness.

Oh, as a parting shot to the fledgling iPhone devs, have fun with $250 regional revenue barrier, that truly sucks ballz: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/06/27/are-iphone-app-devs-getting-a-raw-deal/

By: whoopie

whoopie — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:37:52 +0000

getting tired of seeing headlines reading with “Did ____ just ____ ?”

if you’re writing the story, its obvious you already know, so why are you asking us???? is it a cheap mechanism to create some excitement over the mundane daily garbage of the world of tech???

By: Doug Chisholm

Doug Chisholm — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:03:21 +0000

Does this mean that we may see iphone browsers that allow for the uploading of images? I doubt it.. I’m convinced that appled blocked this feature in the browser to force developers to build native apps and hence push the app store which they can monetize unlike the web apps which they can’t.

By: chaz chung

chaz chung — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:01:56 +0000

Skyfire would be HOT on the iPhone. I hope they jump on this.

By: J

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:54:37 +0000

I wonder how the tone in the comments and also the public response (lawsuites, etc…) would be if MS released a phone that only allow you to use IE or browsers based on IE components?…..

I guess that Apple is excused because they have been the underdog before, which is not the case anymore since the iPhone got released…

- By someone that prefers equal judgements to issues

By: Tyler D

Tyler D — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:46:31 +0000

Honestly, would Apple please come out and state their policy on competing applications?

I can see how it’s to their advantage no to state their policy, then they can reject any app they don’t like. They could still take a general position while reserving the right of refusal.

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Non-Safari Browsers for iPhone « Geranium Kisses — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:21:19 +0000

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By: Adam Bruce

Adam Bruce — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:11:30 +0000

I find it hard to believe that is the reason Flash isn’t on iPhone. Sure you can make a Flash program that will kill a processor, but the core technology in Flash is over 10 years old and hasn’t changed a lot in terms of the player. The scripting engine has gotten far more advanced but the core executable is still small, and so long as the programmer is smart in how they render animation and code a lightweight device should have no issue.

By: FIREFOX, INTERNET EXPLORER, CHROME pour IPHONE | BLOG GEEK d'actu GEEK

FIREFOX, INTERNET EXPLORER, CHROME pour IPHONE | BLOG GEEK d'actu GEEK — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:20:53 +0000

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By: mike

mike — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:17:22 +0000

But that won’t happen. If you have a mac, you already know that firefox is much slower than safari on the graphic side… and the iPhone has an OS X for operating system, too.
Plus, if you’re a web developer, you know that Webkit is by far the faster browser for Javascript, and the faster for HTML/CSS rendering.
That’s one of the main reasons why Google, Nokia and Motorola use Webkit for their phone browsers : it has to be very optimized.

So you might love Firefox on windows, but you probably won’t like firefox on an OS X with a less powerful processor than your PC…

By: Jash Sayani

Jash Sayani — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:10:06 +0000

Yeah, when you mean “alternate to Safari”, its definitely going to be Firefox (I mean iFirefox).
Would be interesting to see all iPhone users using firefox rather than Safari….

By: john

john — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:02:32 +0000

I thought the absence of flash was related to some compatibility issues with the iphone’s processor. basically it crashes the operating system. I have a feeling that both apple and adobe want it on there but it needs to, well, work first.