Google has always been a major player when it comes to the iPhone. The iPhone came loaded with YouTube, Google Maps, and a extremely simple method to sync up your Gmail detail with your iPhone. Upon launch, many of Google’s web applications were ported by for use with the iPhone’s mobile Safari browser.

According to the Vice President of Google’s Engineering division, Google will be providing applications for the iPhone from day one of the release of iPhone firmware 2.0, and will assemble them available in the App Store. Most already assumed that would be the case. Google says that the iPhone has

changed the way citizens will look at mobile web browsing.

That’s considering according to Google, all mobile browsers are different. There are so many platforms, and so few use the same mobile browser. Google thinks that with how successful WebKit based browsers like mobile Safari, and the browser found on some Nokia devices, most manufacturers will adopt a WebKit based solution in the future as well. Google made it known that despite bringing native applications to the iPhone, they will still maintain and develop web based applications, as they do know.

[Via MacWorld]

Orginal post by Chase Higgins