Apple's Scott Forstall, VP of iPhone Software, took the opportunity of today's Roadmap Event to showcase five new third-party apps.
It has been said many times that the iPhone runs the very same OS X as can be found on the Macintosh, but today's demonstrations have proven that the power of the operating system is truly present within the handset. In addition to that, Apple flaunted the ease of bringing full-powered desktop-class applications to the iPhone using its XTools-based iPhone SDK.
First to debut was the much-anticipated game Spore. Yes, Spore - the game which allows one to conquer the universe starting their existence as a measly single-cell organism - has been ported to the iPhone. It is allegedly somewhat stripped down, and performance was a little choppy, but it's still Spore! On top of that, development time was stated to be about two weeks. This certainly bodes well for the ease of porting software to the iPhone.
Second on the roster was salesforce.com's Sa
