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In Mobile, Fragmentation is Forever.
- morisy 17y agoThat's a very surprising message (dare say refreshing? I dare not) from an investor in the largest cross-platform app vendor, GetJar. I think his best advice, which applies as well to mobile as it does elsewhere, is bound the problem: Get off the Adobe-vs.-Apple bandwagon and figure out what your market is and how you can best achieve it. Solid piece.
- dirtyaura 17y agoI agree that is a solid piece. I would even call it the most sane article about mobile fragmentation I've read for a while. I believe in HTML5 and that it will be a big success, even in the mobile space. But at the same time, top device manufacturers are fighting hard that their hardware doesn't became commodity and because of that we will see a lot of great innovation and HTML standardization just can't keep up with it. And HTML rendering engine is not necessarily the best technology base for all different usage modalities that mobile devices inherently have.
- mcav 17y agoA lot of acronyms to essentially say that you can't write-once-run-anywhere in mobile. From the article's glossary: "XHTML – multi modality markup language". What?
- shizcakes 17y agoThe chart of all the revolutions frustrates me because all the dates are 10 years earlier than they occured.
- sunkencity 17y agoYeah that's pretty bizarre. Desktop Internet Computing with google in the 80's?
- dirtyaura 17y agoI think the chart is from Morgan Stanley mobile report and decades refer to decades when that "revolution" started, not when winners of the revolution were solved.