Apple on Thursday launched an online directory of more than 200 Web applications built to run in the iPhone's Safari browser.
The applications are
organized in categories such as the most recent viewed, most popular,
alphabetical and staff picks. The featured Web software on Thursday was a
Facebook application that connects the iPhone to the popular social network in
order to visits friends' pages, upload and share photos, or send and receive
messages.
Other software
listed as staff picks include a puzzle game called Sudoku, Fandango and
MovieTickets.com applications for buying movie tickets, mobile dictionaries of
translation for English, French, Spanish and German; and WeatherBug for
checking on the local weather anywhere in the world. The directory provides a
URL for each of the applications to access the service.
During Apple's
Worldwide Developers Conference in June in San Francisco, chief executive Steve Jobs
disappointed many developers by announcing that the company would only support
the making of applications to run in the browser and not directly on the
iPhone's operating system.
While Jobs claimed Web applications built using Web 2.0
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