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Most of the WWDC keynote was related to Leopard this year. Even though all our eyes and ears were turned to the iPhone, only the last few minutes were dedicated to the iPhone. Besides confirming the iPhone release date and time, Steve Jobs explained how developers can make applications for the iPhone. Surprisingly, they were told to create websites and host it on their own servers. Apple wants them to develop apps for Safari.

Jobs said, "We have been trying to come up with a solution to expand the capabilities of the iPhone so developers can write great apps for it, but keep the iPhone secure. And we’ve come up with a very sweet solution. Let me tell you about it. An innovative new way to create applications for mobile devices… it’s all based on the fact that we have the full Safari engine in the iPhone."

He continued by saying, "And so you can write amazing Web 2.0 and AJAX apps that look and behave exactly like apps on the iPhone, and these apps can integrate perfectly with iPhone services. They can make a call, check email, look up a location on Gmaps… don’t worry about distribution, just put ‘em on an internet server. They’re easy to update, just update it on your server. They’re secure, and they run securely sandboxed on the iPhone. And guess what, there’s no SDK you need! You’ve got everything you need if you can write modern web apps…"

Of course, interesting things can be done this way. But programmers were expecting something more. Something that would have brought them closer to the device. Something that would have given them the impression of being part of a family. The iPhone family. Let see what kind of ideas people can come up with in the next few weeks.

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