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Apple Opens Up iPhone To Third-Party Browsers

Posted by timothy on from the boiling-your-own-frog dept.

sedition writes "MacRumors is featuring a story on Apple's discreet decision to open the iPhone to 3rd-party browsers, by allowing them to appear on AppStore. While the big players are still at bay, several choices are offered, allowing you, e.g. to browse anonymously or in fullscreen. Prices vary."

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  1. Only Webkit-based browsers by caspy7 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let me clarify this before the hundreds of comments talking about Opera and Firefox "Coming to the iPhone!".
    All of the browsers listed are based on Webkit, the rendering engine for Safari (in fact, I think they're all simply embedding Webkit).
    It is highly unlikely that Apple will allow a browser based on other technologies any time soon.

    Sorry to smash your hopes and dreams.

    1. Re:Only Webkit-based browsers by cbhacking · · Score: 2, Informative

      In other words, Apple is allowing apps that are used for browsing, but has not gone back on their "no third-party software that can execute other software" i.e. a competing JavaScript engine (or Flash, or Java, or even Bash...)

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  2. Re:No Flash by AKAImBatman · · Score: 2, Informative

    don't dimiss flash as a viable dev platform

    As an app platform, Flash can't do anything that Javascript/DHTML can't. (See my sig for an example.) Except for multimedia.

    The apps in the appstore are there because the appstore provides a useful distribution channel to get apps in front of users. i.e. a "push" model. Apps on the Internet are much harder to find and require active searching by the user. i.e. the "pull" model

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