On a tangent Jake; as a developer, and a webby one at that, what are your thoughts on apps vs the web?
I'm amazed that we've had mobile web for so long now and all it takes is extra html to support it, and what happened? nothing. Come iOS and Android and everyone's rushing to develop apps. so a seperate app for this platform a new one for that. It must take a lot of support, and flies away from the inclusivity of web standards - if you haven't got a particular device you may be left behind if a particular app from one platform isn't available on another.
Your question about the coming tablets is interesting because of the big shakeup that's going on. I'm interested in the blackberry playbook for their take on "you don't need to do apps for the web". Obviously apps are useful for device specific functions (requiring GPS, Graphics acceleration etc) but I would like to see more device agnostics.
PS - think of an alternate reality where IBM decided to bring out a tablet running 'NotesOS' - optimised to run an efficient eclipse based notes client as a shell. Fully synchronised, web browsing built in, access to a huge legacy installed user base - what more would you want? And would then answer your newest post too :-)
On a tangent Jake; as a developer, and a webby one at that, what are your thoughts on apps vs the web?
I'm amazed that we've had mobile web for so long now and all it takes is extra html to support it, and what happened? nothing. Come iOS and Android and everyone's rushing to develop apps. so a seperate app for this platform a new one for that. It must take a lot of support, and flies away from the inclusivity of web standards - if you haven't got a particular device you may be left behind if a particular app from one platform isn't available on another.
Your question about the coming tablets is interesting because of the big shakeup that's going on. I'm interested in the blackberry playbook for their take on "you don't need to do apps for the web". Obviously apps are useful for device specific functions (requiring GPS, Graphics acceleration etc) but I would like to see more device agnostics.
PS - think of an alternate reality where IBM decided to bring out a tablet running 'NotesOS' - optimised to run an efficient eclipse based notes client as a shell. Fully synchronised, web browsing built in, access to a huge legacy installed user base - what more would you want? And would then answer your newest post too :-)