With less than 10 days to go before iPhone will be available on sell in the market, most users or developers are now questioning on whether any third-party application can be played or worked on iPhone. Though Apple’s answer is yes, and Apple is always Apple, the most secretive company that we know, and would not allowed the developers to know much details about what being built inside the “cool, sweet” iPhone, or its framework, and indeed I’m not so surprise when Apple did not provide the software development kit (SDK) for the developers. It sounds like Apple believed in the support of full Javascript and AJAX functionality is more than enough to build a decent Web application, but it’s isn’t.

I do not know the project parameters of Apple on this tiny iPhone, and also it’s looks like a huge project towards iPhone from Apple, but apparently, I don’t think iPhone version of Safari will allow the hot product of Microsoft, i.e. Silverlight plug-in to install on it, not to mention some crazy games developed from using Java, i.e. Java ME.

Update: Just came across the so-called “iPhone Application List,” a nice blog.

From recent buzz on the Web, few are arguing on the speed of Apple’s Safari 3, Apple’s newest browser that just released to the market. Whether or not, it is faster or the slower than Internet Explorer, Firefox or Opera browser, as demonstrated in two different charts, it’s a debatable question. In the meantime, I just came across a forum, a user stated that by using a Javascript speed test, it showed Safari 3 indeed faster than the other browsers on the Web, i.e. average time is 123, Aha!

Source: available at http://www.apple.com/safari/, accessed June 14 2007

Source: available at http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/06/wired_news_benc.html, accessed June 14 2007

Albeit that this feature is their strongest selling point, and of course, its biggest appeal, and some Mac users thought Safari browser is terrific, but I don’t think Apple can build an empire for Safari browser by simply relied on this “faster speed” feature. Was faster speed the answer for all the browsers, I wondered?

Apple has released its Safari 3 for Mac and Windows platforms, a tactical move for them to sow the seeds of the browser war in the future. Coined as twice as fast as IE 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2, according to Apple’s press release. Currently, Safari 3 offered in three different versions, i.e. Safari plus QuickTime for Windows XP and Vista, or a solely Safari executable file and the Safari for Mac OS X version 10.4.9 or later, as listed in Apple’s Safari download page. But I’m not so sure whether this Safari 3 for Windows platform will be regarded as a product that clamored by the Windows users?

However, the most interesting part is that Apple have to pacify some of the critics especially this newly release product may have easily been hit by bugs. Though Apple not officially comment on this issue, hot on the wheel of this potential problem come another one, Safari 3 does not support Chinese character in a proper manner. According to a Chinese blog (in Mandarin), in order to use Safari 3 to view the Chinese character, two (2) main prerequisites must be fulfilled: A user’s system must have pre-installed Microsoft JhengHei, one of the popular East Asian User Interface fonts; A user must also customize her browser’s character encoding to this Microsoft JhengHei as well.

I predict that there’s more to develop if Apple really want to earn a chunk of the market share among the Windows users.

Just came across a funny video clip on YouTube. I wondered Apple always has the capabilities to come out a better idea in introducing their products or their key people. Below is the embedded video clip.

“Coming June 29″ is the big promise of Apple’s three iPhone TV advertisements. I really enjoyed watching the videos, especially a user can get their desired things done through a finger touch on the iPhone’s touchscreen. Though it has just got the FCC approval, the announced release date surely would ended the Apple’s stock price, particularly sensitive about the launch in recent weeks, as reported by Reuters. However, a blog has noticed that there is a inconsistency of the icon views, i.e. 11 icons vs, 12 icons that appeared on iPhone. It remind me of “small is beautiful,” maybe Apple is too big now and they’re not paying close attention to the small details and these small details also may “not” end up being very important eventually.

Update: You also can watch the above stated iPhone video on YouTube, as embedded in below.