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As much as I love web applications, sometimes they're simply just not suited for the task (music streaming, etc.) right now. Even current simple web application
by tomwans 16y ago
As much as I love web applications, sometimes they're simply just not suited for the task (music streaming, etc.) right now. Even current simple web applications for the iPhone, like Gmail, aren't perfect (but oh do I love it over the native Mail client). But with Apple's help in creating (albeit proprietary) standard for a mobile web app (http://ajaxian.com/archives/iphone-full-screen-webapps http://ajaxian.com/archives/iphone-full-screen-webapps), the mobile web experience should be getting better (why hasn't Google implemented this yet?). The way I see it, we'll be having web apps and native apps sitting side by side on our mobile devices for quite some time in the future (if not already).
- jasonlbaptiste 16y agoThere are lots of gaps to be filled, but they're being filled pretty fast. Someone needs to do what jquery did for interface/interaction for offline access.
- raimondious 16y agoExactly. Why do people make false dichotomies in tech so much? People paint a picture that one technology will completely dominate over another, when really the interesting thing is the variety. Everything has a trade-off and everything has its niche.
- roc 16y agoBecause splitting people into "teams" evokes tribe-response and drives page-views/circulation/discussion/etc.
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- mechanical_fish 16y agoTo look on the bright side, the same social dynamics drives the competition between rival strategies, forcing both of them to evolve more quickly.
- fletchowns 16y agoMaybe not right now, but it's headed in the right direction with the <audio> and <video> tags, if only they could agree on a damn codec. It's too bad the W3C moves so slowly, why do we not have a <webcam> tag or a way to do P2P communication in javascript?