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Is iPhone's Web-Only App Stance Sustainable? |
The iPhone, perhaps the hottest smartphone in the history of smartphones, lacks one of the most basic functions of pretty much every other smartphone on the market: the ability to accept, load and save third-party applications. Apple's conciliatory approach to address the situation is to allow users access to third-party applications via the built-in Safari browser. The iPhone version of Safari doesn't support Java or Adobe's Flash, which leaves out a couple of key technologies that help create rich applications.
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