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Paul Thurrott thinks he’s brilliant

It’s funny how the fake news is often better than the real news. Fake Steve Jobs points to this article by Paul Thurrott where the man quotes a different article that he also wrote and goes on to say how insightful that other one was. It’s all about how he has figured out that Safari is a big part of Apple’s plans - because it’s on macos, windows and the iPhone. His clue was not that it was part of Jobs famous one more things. No apparently he believes there were no clues and only his deep thinking led him to that insight. He goes so far to believe that not only could no one figure this out on their own, even his having told you you might not believe it.

And yes, I know it all sounds like a conspiracy theory. But I think that we will all look back on this day as the time when we stopped thinking about desktop OSes and focused on the mobile, Web-based future. This might be the smartest thing Apple ever did. And so far, few have even noticed it. Yet.

I noticed it (although I don’t think it’s ultimately going to work out to be a big deal since safari itself isn’t currently an overly compelling product), frantic industries sure noted it. I can remember in the furor after the wwdc several other bloggers who noted it with greater or lesser interest.

You know, I think it’s interesting to try and push safari as a platform for app development for the iPhone, but if you think that that is the future of applications. Well, I’ll have to politely disagree with you. Even Steve Jobs himself (of a month ago) agrees with the idea that actual apps are a much better experience than web apps. If it was so great, Apple would have written all their apps in javascript, they didn’t because it isn’t that great. Which isn’t to say that some great web apps won’t show up on the iPhone - there’s a lot of truly fantastic stuff that mobile internet enables - but there is a whole class of interesting apps that will be hobbled by being a second class citizen.

There’s an SDK out there and some folks are going to be the initial recipients of it. I suspect down the road as this thing takes off, more and more people will be able to get their hands on it. And that’s when we’ll see a lot of really good stuff coming down the pike. Hopefully.