Today’s Apple announcement of “if it works in Safari, it works on the iPhone” is both a call to action and an affirmation of effort. Web apps have come into there own in most respects, and this movement away from complied to web will force the hand of many who have held out thus far. It also positions those companies that understand how the web works and the power of social/community/collaborative products at the front of a very long line of interested parties.
Among those rejoicing the announcement are Jason Fried and the 37signals crew. Hells yeah indeed Jason. (Be advised the comments on that post have the makings of a flamewar over the merits of objective-c versus web2.0, pointless meandering ensues…) I assume you will see simlar posts and pronouncements from across the web, including Google, Yahoo and other powerhouses, I look forward to seeing the response once people get a chance to digest and connect some of the dots.
On a technnical note, I hope Apple’s assertion that there would be no SDK is an overstatement. Please, give us all some design guidance and/or assets to truly “match the look of the phone”.
Denver is proposing strict new policies in an effort to fight ‘Global Warming’ in the absence of what Denver’s mayor feels is an “absence of federal leadership on the issue.”
My views on the subject are mixed, yes our current use of fossil fuels and consumption have a negative impact our our environment, we need to fix that and cleanup these issues. Are those issues directly related to climate change and aqn immenent disaster, no way. The motivation for the current “global warming’ hysteria is simple, money. It’s a new tax mechanism to offset and divert from those parties ultimately responsible for the pollution - big industry and the reality of global trade. The UN and now apprently local goverments under the recently signed U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement are looking to extort and blackmail citizens into some eco-gustapo.
Don’t get me wrong, I think behavior should change. But look at this plan. It links insurance premiums with miles driven. You have a city that has sprawled, as many have in recent decades, penalizing drivers for poor urban planning because they need to commute. Ok, that’s handy. All of this is a charade to cover and insulate those that are most culpable in all of this. Kudos for trying to effect change at the local level, but do it through incentive and reward based programs, at least until there’s a time that it’s more cost-effective to be clean and consume less.
