Update on Steve Jobs bombshell that kind of...bombed...

It appears that quite a few people were left feeling disappointed after Steve Jobs made the "big" announcement that had many people buzzing in the world of computers. According to Wired some of the earlier anticipation over iPhone has now been squashed due to discovering some of the hinted features are only going to be possible with the Safari browser:

Some developers were less delicate.

"Using Ajax for the iPhone is bullshit," said French programmer Jacques Foucry. His colleague, web programmer Dominique Baillon, agreed. "I'm quite comfortable with web applications, but I need something that I can run locally (on the iPhone) and that will work when I'm not connected to the internet."

Baillon said Apple's solution to let web apps run in Safari was good for programmers who write web apps, but for no one else.

However the earlier news that Safari would be compatible with Windows was supposedly met with huge applause. That one I don't get, we have Safari on our Mac and I can't do as many things with Safari that I can do with Firefox...