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Sergey Brin: Native Apps And Web Apps Will Converge Soon

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Re: Sergey Brin: Native Apps And Web Apps Will Converge Soon

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Post by greyman »

I understand the Google's vision of OS-agnostic computer experience, but anyway, I fail to see how will Sergey solve the inherent problem that the native app programming will usually give the developer more possibilities. I still prefer the model like one being used by Evernote - the client is native, and only data is synced on the cloud.

Re: Sergey Brin: Native Apps And Web Apps Will Converge Soon

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Post by arethuza »

greyman wrote: post #3

I understand the Google's vision of OS-agnostic computer experience, but anyway, I fail to see how will Sergey solve the inherent problem that the native app programming will usually give the developer more possibilities. I still prefer the model like one being used by Evernote - the client is native, and only data is synced on the cloud.

I find using native apps with files in Dropbox works better for me (docs, Freemind mindmaps) than using web-based equivalents.

Of course, things like Google Docs win if you want to eventually share the document, but for personal stuff I'll be sticking to Dropbox.

Re: Sergey Brin: Native Apps And Web Apps Will Converge Soon

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Post by buddycasino »

arethuza wrote: post #5
greyman wrote: post #3

I understand the Google's vision of OS-agnostic computer experience, but anyway, I fail to see how will Sergey solve the inherent problem that the native app programming will usually give the developer more possibilities. I still prefer the model like one being used by Evernote - the client is native, and only data is synced on the cloud.

I find using native apps with files in Dropbox works better for me (docs, Freemind mindmaps) than using web-based equivalents. Of course, things like Google Docs win if you want to eventually share the document, but for personal stuff I'll be sticking to Dropbox.

Maybe thats why Google develops native client: http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/

Still looks pretty alpha.

Re: Sergey Brin: Native Apps And Web Apps Will Converge Soon

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Post by joe24pack »

mrvir wrote: post #7
Angostura wrote: post #4

I've just had a flashback to the original JavaOne conference.

Care to elaborate a bit?

I think he might be referring to the "write once, run anywhere" slogan, about how Java via the JVM would free users and developers from the tyranny of any particular OS.

Re: Sergey Brin: Native Apps And Web Apps Will Converge Soon

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Post by Aegean »

I dont think they will converge that fast. I definitely don't see myself writing html and javascript code for a computer program. The web languages unfortunately are ad-hoc pieces of different technologies shuffled together. Ad-hoc is generally good, but its done in a disorganized way which is what I don't like about it. Why bring the same chaos to native?

Re: Sergey Brin: Native Apps And Web Apps Will Converge Soon

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Post by arethuza »

Angostura wrote: post #4

I've just had a flashback to the original JavaOne conference.

It took me quite a long time to remember that I spent that conference doing booth duty. I seem to remember some rather large gentlemen getting rather upset with us when we tried to carry our own boxes from our rental car to our stand....
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