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But how can a web browser be "extremely light" nowadays? It has to do all the complex layout rendering and JavaScript execution of pages that have ~50MB memory usage.
Opera Mini made a lightweight mobile browser by offloading some of the rendering and javascript to a proxy server.
Is this where Android / iOS devs start wishing they'd gone with HTML5 / JS instead?
I think this is a very promising development (OLPC anyone?) but Android is cheerfully doing this organically: "Looking at nice dual-core dual-SIM 3G Android for $30-40 wholesale. Quad-core for $100-125. And increasingly hard to tell apart from premium" (tweet from @BenedictEvans this morning).
I'd love to see a Mozilla phone work in the market and I might buy one, but I'm skeptical about the $25 price point for a phone that's based on a web browser. At the very least you need a battery that lets you actually use that browser for more than 15 minutes. That's about $10. Now there's $15 left for a touch display and a chipset and all the rest of it. That's very hard to imagine.
I think this is a very promising development (OLPC anyone?) but Android is cheerfully doing this organically: "Looking at nice dual-core dual-SIM 3G Android for $30-40 wholesale. Quad-core for $100-125. And increasingly hard to tell apart from premium" (tweet from @BenedictEvans this morning).
Why did Ben Evans suddenly discover, about three years too late, that Android is open source and powering all kind of weird experiments? Is it to do with his new job?
Is this where Android / iOS devs start wishing they'd gone with HTML5 / JS instead?
I hope so, that way there will be less devs on these Apple/Google stores, script kiddies can go back toying with HTML5 on 25$ hansets for third world countries while serious developpers get more clients from Europe/Northen America with fast native apps on high end devices, A win-win ! Please move to HTML5 quickly,trust me you'll love it.
I hope it doesn't work out. I would hate to live in a HTML-JS only future they are trying to build. And please don't tell me about transpilation, because it's crap.
Surely you mean "HTML-JS powered by your favorite backend" future right?
Spain starting to be considered as an emerging country?
Is this where Android / iOS devs start wishing they'd gone with HTML5 / JS instead?