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Maybe, maybe not. If anything, I think that the current interest in these sorts of apps is because they can cache content. The network is not pervasive yet, t
by DannoHung 17y ago
Maybe, maybe not. If anything, I think that the current interest in these sorts of apps is because they can cache content. The network is not pervasive yet, thus using a web browser to view all of it is impractical.
When you can reliably browse the web at broadband speeds in a car going through Bumfuck, Appalachia, the web will emerge triumphant again.
- warfangle 17y agoMore important than Bumfuck, Appalachia is Thirty Feet Below The Sidewalk On the Train, Big City.
- pavlov 17y agoProviding 3G in the subway does not appear to be a problem in cities like Tokyo and Helsinki. Big City, USA will figure it out soon.
- gojomo 17y agoPrecaching didn't seem the main selling point of these apps to me; but if it is: perhaps HTML5 manifests/local-storage is a better way to preserve webbiness and allow offline operation.
- DannoHung 17y agoMaybe, maybe not. It's definitely my favorite aspect of them. It's very nice to be able to read a bunch of top articles from the BBC, the Times, and NPR on my way to work with all the article pictures and really fast loading. The only way it'd be better is if I just had to touch a single button for all of them to update their caches (and that the NPR app would load the audio stories in addition to the text and pictures). edit: BTW, I take a train to work, so it's not like I'm doing this while driving a car or something.