iPhone & Google Gears -> A perfect match!

Tuesday, June 12. 2007
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Yesterday Apple announced, that (contary to what Steve Jobs SAID) the iPhone will not support 3rd party applications. If you want to write anything for the iPhone, you will have to use HTML and JavaScript.

I have been a web developer for the last eight years and I do not consider this bad news, because I believe today almost anything can be done with JS&HTML. The only one thing missing from most browsers is persistent offline storage. Cookies can and will be deleted by the user at any time and offline-storage is not available when your iPhone can't get a connection to your carrier.

This is where Google Gears comes in. A Safari version is already available for the latest builds and porting it to the iPhone will (probably) not be that complicated. You get access to a full SQLite database from JavaScript and it can even store elements like images, HTML and .js files.

Porting Goolge Gears to the iPhone will make your AJAX applications REAL iPhone apps. Let's hobe Apple and Google consider this option. I am sure they already discussed that and "no SDK needed" would still be true in a way.

by Stefan LH

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