Today, the iPhone gets released. And while everyone is going overboard about the features, the glitz, the hype, etc., I see something else that most people seem to be missing:

The iPhone is finally going to force people to write *real* mobile web-applications. Designed for a mobile interface, without sacrificing visual appeal, functionality or “whoa!”.

I have been waiting for this for a long time – ever since I use a my PDA for the first time to access the Internet, and sadly found that web designers couldn’t care less about mobile users. While I have had a mobile version of my diary for a long time (and yeah, I know it sucks ostrich eggs visually), I have not seen many people take the trouble of doing this kind of stuff.

While all these new fancy iPhone apps that are popping up all over the place are targeted at the iPhone, they will in effect be usable on any real mobile device. For example, almost all of them work just fine on my PalmOS PDA’s browser.

I think this is great.