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Don't you remember that Apple was first trying to force everything on the iPhone to be done on the web?
by dcurtis 16y ago
Don't you remember that Apple was first trying to force everything on the iPhone to be done on the web?
- Psyonic 16y agoWe all remember, but they changed their minds and now fully embrace the app store, and even use it as a major marketing point. Suggesting we go back to it now is a bit pre-mature, I think. JS simply doesn't run comparably to native apps, so if they want to talk battery life, they should discuss it there as well.
- Terretta 16y agoHe did. In the very next sentence: > Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript – all open standards. Apple’s mobile devices all ship with high performance, low power implementations of these open standards. Not too many words there between 'JavaScript' and 'low power'.
- Psyonic 16y agoThey may be low power compared to other implementations of the same, but I'd be very surprised to hear that the same program written in html5 and JS didn't consume more power than an app equivalent. Ever use Meebo? Ever look at how resource intensive it is, vs Adium or a similar program?
- Raphael 16y agoHmm, oddly I don't recall the 1st party apps being HTML apps, with access to the camera.