While cleaning up my blog I encountered an old blog of mine from 2007 and 2008, before iPhone native apps became mainstream. And I am not surprised at all about how things had turned out — exactly as I was expecting. From Is Local faster, fresher, better? Many say Yes…:

Next, Apple will be releasing their SDK for the iPhone for the development of native Local apps. Let’s see what will happen there. Very cool applications are going to be created. I can’t wait to see the distribution channel: a portal for iPhone applications, or perhaps via iTunes; I believe that pain #1 for Local applications is the their discovery and download (distribution), which is why I am looking forward to see how Apple will tackle that problem. Let’s see how and what the iPhone, the mobile device that transformed the mobile web, will do for Local applications…

Same with other blog posts like this one The Problem with Mobile (2006). It is cool to look back and see it all finally happening… Right on the money!

The question now is what is next? A number of things come to mind, but that is the topic for a different blog post…

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