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To: sylvester80 who wrote (3162)4/2/2011 1:54:06 PM
From: Doren   of 3170
 
I attend a local iOS developer meeting in San Diego.

Those in the know say that this controversy is due to the fact that an unvetted web app theoretically has the ability to surreptitiously download and execute an .exe file.

I'm not a professional programmer so the semantics of my description may be a bit off.

The bottom line is the more knowledgeable developers at the iOS developer meeting have spoken to Apple reps and believe the Apple reps' explanations. Additionally the reps told developers (who believe them) Apple is fully behind the web apps system/ecology, is working on the problem and intends to support web apps fully.

These are not purely Mac centric people, having diverse and longtime backgrounds. (Databases, enterprise software, Java developers.)

From my own observations after a demonstration of DashCode, which was originally developed for Dashboard apps on Macs, it makes web app development stone simple. In fact you can develop iPhone and iPad web apps simultaneously using DashCode. I doubt that Apple would have put all the work they did into DashCode to make it compatible with iPhone/iPad development if they weren't pretty serious about the system.
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