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Here's the fact: The web is a computing paradigm that was not designed for mobile.
A mobile device is just another client. The web was designed to be agnostic in that regard, was it not?
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A mobile device is just another client. The web was designed to be agnostic in that regard, was it not?
no it was not. hence the need for "mobile" versions of websites and various hacks to make the web work on mobile devices.
No. Somebody please stop this guy. After reading this I feel about him like the machines must have when they sent the Terminator back in time to kill Sarah Connor. Web apps are to native mobile apps as Java apps are to native desktop apps: ploddingly slow with clunky non-standard UIs—a degraded, lackluster experience. With some notable exceptions I think they can be a pragmatically motivated stopgap step (in regards…
Until then, stfu.
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Here's the fact: The web is a computing paradigm that was not designed for mobile.
A mobile device is just another client. The web was designed to be agnostic in that regard, was it not?
The web is just another computing paradigm with its own strengths and weaknesses. It's not the be all and end all of mobile.
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Web apps beat native apps because there's no install step, no upgrade step and hyperlinks provide the ultimate way for different apps to communicate with each other.
There _is_ an install step to almost all web apps, and it generally involves having to fill out a boring form, clicking through from a confirmation email, and trying to remember a username and password every week for the rest of the app's useful life.
Yahoo has just announced Yahoo Cocktails, a set of tools for developers to use that make web apps look and behave more like native apps. Mozilla is working on tools to help developers sell web-based apps to mobile device users, enabling them to make profits just as developers in the iTunes App Store or Android Market can now do. Yes, we can finally relegate this obsolete dinosaur to the dustbin of history once we fai…
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The question is: besides games, how many apps really use richer interactions than what's already possible using web technologies?
All multimedia content creation apps. Think DJ apps, music creation, audio editing, video editing, 3d modeling, image editing and illustration, etc. Basically everything that makes computers creative tools instead of information management devices. I don't see web versions of any of these seriously challenging native any time soon. Hell, even spreadsheets and word processors are still better in native. I don't unders…
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The question is: besides games, how many apps really use richer interactions than what's already possible using web technologies?
All multimedia content creation apps. Think DJ apps, music creation, audio editing, video editing, 3d modeling, image editing and illustration, etc. Basically everything that makes computers creative tools instead of information management devices. I don't see web versions of any of these seriously challenging native any time soon. Hell, even spreadsheets and word processors are still better in native. I don't unders…
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All multimedia content creation apps. Think DJ apps, music creation, audio editing, video editing, 3d modeling, image editing and illustration, etc. Basically everything that makes computers creative tools instead of information management devices. I don't see web versions of any of these seriously challenging native any time soon. Hell, even spreadsheets and word processors are still better in native. I don't unders…
Those are all desktop apps, though. Mobile apps - like the ones referred to by the article - are rarely for content creation.