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When Steve Jobs announced the platform that people would be developing applications for the iPhone on, it came as a disappointment to many people. Without an SDK, most software developers for the Mac will not be able to create apps for the iPhone in the traditional way. As many of you have seen, there has been much concern from the Mac Community about this. At the moment though, iPhone development doesn’t seem to be all doom-and-gloom.

In the last few days, different applications for the iPhone have been popping up like Digg and iTweetr, that make use of AJAX, HTML etc.  Mashable’s Stan Schroeder has posted what he thinks are “7 Kickass iPhone apps that don’t exist yet.”

The list basically just talks about websites that are in use now like YouTube, Gmail and Flickr. You could still use these web-services now, but like Stan says in the article, they would be much more useable if tailored to fit on the iPhone’s screen, and interface. In the comments, there were also a few good ideas tossed around, such as a Ustream app (Live streams of you and your iPhone!), and maybe even a Slingbox client for TV on your iPhone.

I think that most of these apps sound like a good idea, but most will still work on the iPhone, even if a “specialized” version isn’t created. What I would really like to see is a Cocoa app re-coded for use on the web (if at all possible). Though until Apple can work out how to best set the iPhone up for more extensive development, it looks like this is the next best thing.

Read [Mashable]