Unless that has changed, but downloading the SDK is free. If you want to run your apps in an iP*, you need to pay the 99$ yearly fee to get the right certificates. As long as you're happy running in the simulator, you should be fine, AFAIK.
Liz ====================== On Feb 22, 2010, at 11:16 PM, Celeste Suliin Burris wrote: > Thanks for the info - I was interested in iPad apps, but put off by the $99 > just to download and look over the SDK. > > A web app sounds better - you wouldn't have to write a different one for > every smartphone. > > > -----Original Message----- >> From: Bill Stephenson <bi...@ezinvoice.com> >> Sent: Feb 21, 2010 4:19 PM >> To: Perl MacOSX <macosx@perl.org> >> Subject: Web Apps >> >> I started playing with iPhone/iTouch/iPad "web apps" just last week. >> >> http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/navigation/ >> index.html#section=Resource%20Types&topic=Coding%20How-Tos >> >> Apple has made it incredibly easy to create a web app that runs exactly >> like a native app on these devices. >> >> Of course, perl is a perfect server side language to power these apps, >> and BBEdit and Perl on a Mac make the perfect IDE to create these web >> apps. >> >> While poking around there I also found out that Safari on the Mac OS >> also provides some big enhancements for web based apps now too. Check >> this out: >> >> "Safari on iPhone, Mac OS X, and Windows all implement the Offline Web >> Applications feature of HTML5. This feature allows you to cache all of >> the resource files for your web application on the client, improving >> the load time of your application and making it possible to create an >> application which is fully functional even when there is no network >> connection." >> >> (source: >> http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/codinghowtos/Desktop/ >> DataManagement/index.html) >> >> This is actually fulfilling a vision I expressed right here waaay back >> in 2005: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/macosx@perl.org/msg08946.html >> >> Geez, It's like they've been working all this time for me entirely for >> free ;) >> >> Seriously, according to the news this week it now looks like most all >> "Smart Phone" makers will adapt a similar, if not the same, approach to >> web based apps that run on these devices. >> >> Think about it, Apple knows that laptops and desktops need to be able >> to run these same applications because it provides a fast and >> inexpensive way for developers to integrate the use of these >> applications with these different devices. Users want that, and they >> want them to "Feel" like a native application too. Apple is essentially >> giving them that. >> >> So, looking forward it's easy to imagine that many "Native" apps will >> really be "Web Apps". The client side will contain the necessary tools >> to run them. Updates and upgrades happen "at the atomic level" on the >> server side and are instant and seamless and distributed as soon as the >> software is accessed. (that's something I learned right here ;) >> >> The advantages to developers both small and large are huge. I now >> believe this is exactly where Apple is heading and as you can imagine, >> I'm absolutely thrilled about it :) >> >> -- >> >> Bill Stephenson >> > > >
