Tag: apple

iPhone and Open Standards

I was a little nervous to look at iPhone for Web Developers from the Apple Developer Connection; with a splash as big as the iPhone, it seemed inevitable that they’d cut corners when it came to support for open standards. Surely the Use Standards and Tried-and-True Design Practices heading was a tease. But then… wow… The first surprise was support for the tel: URI scheme

then again, apple does NOT hate the web on the iphone. these are incredibly well done

Where would Jesus queue?

AT&T’s rivals, Verizon and Sprint, issued “talking points” to their salespeople, with helpful hints for impugning the iPhone’s divinity. They lost customers anyway. Executives at Motorola and other phonemakers were spotted in various stages of shock and awe at the cultural impact that the launch of a handset—a handset!—could have. Honchos in all sorts of industries have long studied keynote speeches by Steve Jobs, Apple’s boss, for ways to cast spells on audiences; now they also need to work out how he outsourced his product marketing to an entire nation of volunteers.

awes. channeling boing boing, calling it the jesusphone that it is.