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"Let us help you make your password more secure by sending it over the wire a gazillion times."

My thoughts exactly. It's ridiculous.

I totally agree. We need to learn how to use the right tool for the job. If your job is to cut down trees you wouldn't say "Well, I know how to use a pocket knife and I think a poc…

I don't dislike the web. I dislike it when web technologies are used to mimic native apps because that creates expectations that can't be fulfilled.

That might unfortunately be true. However, even that is a misconception on the part of companies thinking it is "easier, faster, cheaper" to create web-based apps. Building somethi…

True, but it doesn't seem to me as if Google tries to push web apps as an "as-good-as-or-better-than-native-Android-apps" approach to make apps.

"Never" is much too strong a word to use, but I think that it is very very very unlikely that any major mobile vendor (Apple, Google, Microsoft) will invest much time and money to …

I agree that the web is the exception to this rule (see http://www.springenwerk.com/2011/09/thoughts-on-mobile-ui-de... ). I quote: "Surprisingly, cross-platform UI works on the we…

I fully agree. As stated in my article http://www.springenwerk.com/2011/09/thoughts-on-mobile-ui-de... I think that the web is the one place where cross-platform UI actually works.…

Cross-platform UI is a bad idea on the desktop. Cross-platform UI also is a bad idea on mobile. We need to learn from the past. Cross-platform UI is a conceptual mistake. An app th…

They did a nice job on this framework, but I think it is a fundamentally wrong approach. Here is why: http://www.springenwerk.com/2011/09/thoughts-on-mobile-ui-de... Or, if you pre…

Don't make the mistake of thinking "Storyboard == Auto Layout". I really like Auto Layout and I think it is much easier to understand and read when declared in code. I strongly dis…

That is really cool, thank you for sharing! I also fully agree with the guy that said that the Autolayout support in IB is a nightmare to work with. Plus, IB does _not_ show you ex…