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Apple Allows Lotus On iPhone (After Banning Competitor)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stay-classy-apple dept.

ImNotAtWork writes "Apple is allowing IBM's Lotus to be installed on iPhones. Recently it killed a developer-submitted program that was deemed competitive with Apple's product."

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  1. Re:And the reason is... by mabinogi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or maybe it's because it's not a product being sold in the iPhone App Store, it's just a web application they point Safari at.

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  2. Withdraw this article before it's too late! by astrosmash · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lotus Notes for iPhone is just a plain old Web app. You can't stop the web.

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    1. Re:Withdraw this article before it's too late! by slimjim8094 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Seconded. I imagine that apple did, in fact, ban this from the 'real' application store, but this is a webapp - a monstrosity of HTML, Javascript, and AJAX. It's just a webpage, and Apple doesn't give two shits. And even if they did, they couldn't do anything about it.

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  3. +1 for actually reading the article before posting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Did the poster even read this article before posting it? It clearly says that it's a web based application that will run through the Safari browser. Nothing gets installed on the iPhone. Try reading it next time before posting, that way the headline you choose might make sense.

  4. IBM not on the AppStore, just a webapp. by Hozza · · Score: 5, Informative

    The IBM system is just a web app i.e. a web page with AJAX, viewed via Safari on the iphone. Of course Apple can't ban it, anymore than they can ban you from visiting gmail with an iphone.

    The whole AppStore NDA issue is important, and worthy of discussion, but can we at least avoid FUD ridden straw men like this one.

  5. Re:And the reason is... by PainMeds · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or maybe it's because it's not a product being sold in the iPhone App Store, it's just a web application they point Safari at

    Hence, it's entirely out of Apple's control, hence this is entirely non-news (just incase anyone was curious what the significance of this is).