f you’re already building web apps, you might wonder why you should bother to build an iPhone native app. The short answer is that you might not need to, but you should still optimize the app for iPhones.
Native-looking chrome
Set these in the head:
// set a custom icon for when a user bookmarks the app to [...]
Catherine asked me what iPhone apps I recommend, so I went looking. Exposure, WordPress, and Google Mobile App are on the first page of my home screen. Mocha VNC and Band are buried a little deeper, but deserve mention.
I’m surprised to say that Loopt and Whrrl disappointed me. iPint was good for one laugh, but [...]
Games
Tilt, described in programmer Joe Hewitt’s blog:
…Christopher introduced me to a very talented video game designer, Nicole Lazzaro, who had an endless stream of ideas for games that would use the iPhone’s accelerometer. Nicole’s ideas quickly ran into the limitations of the phone, as we discovered that the browser doesn’t rotate when you hold it [...]
