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Pie Guy shows off the power of iPhone web apps
Neven Mrgan, a developer at Panic, as well as the co-creator of the popular Birdfeed Twitter client, has just released a fascinating new iPhone game. It's called Pie Guy, and the gameplay is reminiscent of classic Pac Mac games. You won't find Pie Guy in the App Store, though, because it's a web app. You can even add it to your home screen and play it offline. The game is fairly fun, but the more exciting part is what it suggests about the future of web apps on the iPhone.
All those problems with the App Store approval process don't apply to web apps, so it's worth seeing how far developers can push web apps. They're not an alternative to every iPhone app, as John Gruber points out at Daring Fireball, because web apps don't have access to a lot of the iPhone's hardware functions (accelerometer, camera, etc.).
On top of that, the Cocoa Touch framework makes native apps not only faster than web apps, but easier to write. Despite all that, Pie Guy makes a good case for expanding our ideas of what a web app can be.
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Subscribe to commentsAlex ZizzoNov 26th 2009 5:04PM
Won't this be obsolete when iPhones (WebOS, Android, etc as well) get Flash support? (If that ever happens...)
Guess its pretty cool someones working something out in the meantime though.
BenNov 26th 2009 5:11PM
A better question is, won't this make Flash obsolete?
sRcNov 26th 2009 10:08PM
why do I feel like I've stepped into a time warp to back when the iPhone first launched?
Justin ShawNov 27th 2009 12:46PM
this reminds me of what intrigues me about android and its eventual merge with chrome os, which is designed to work specifically with web applications. web applications are an important part of the future for mobile devices of many kinds