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Steve Jobs' original vision for iOS web apps, WWDC 2007
Bruce Lawson
A two-minute clip of Steve Jobs at WWDC 2007 introducing the plan for iPhone third-party apps as web apps built on Safari and Ajax. It shows the original vision before the native SDK and App Store.
HN cites it in platform-power and PWA debates as proof that Apple originally wanted the future of apps to be on the web.
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