NEWS: Developers to Mr Jobs: tear down this wall! Apple faces calls to open iPhone

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Apple is facing fresh calls to open the iPhone as new evidence
emerged of the technical and legal challenges developers face putting
their software on the device.

Delegates attending the Office 2.0 Conference have voiced concern
over the iPhone's closed architecture, lack of developer tools, and
the fact its version of Apple's Safari browser lacks common web plug
ins they said needlessly complicate the process of porting software
and online services to the device.

And it's not just Web 2.0 start-ups making the noise. SAP, the
world's largest supplier of business applications, has pitched in,
saying Apple gave the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as the
reason it can't install its software on the iPhone.

SAP had hacked its code onto an iPhone as a proof of concept, which
is now on hold.

...

TJ Kang, chief executive of hosted Office suite ThinkFree backed
Moore saying he knew hosted providers who'd wasted two man months
porting their online spreadsheets to the iPhone, because of
deficiencies in Apple's Safari browser.

According to Kang, AJAX struggles, JavaScript crashes and only simple
HTML can run properly. The problem is iPhone's Safari doesn't use the
same architecture or plug-ins as Safari for the desktop. "Software
developers are finding... even though our AJAX based applications run
in Safari, we have to make a lot of modifications to make it run well
on the iPhone browser," Kang said.

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