Towards the latter portion of the article he talks about cross-platform development. Though I agree that this would somehow get reduced, I can't help but feel

Towards the latter portion of the article he talks about cross-platform development. Though I agree that this would somehow get reduced, I can't help but feel that this would also have some good points. The write-once, run-anywhere ideals have only applicationst hat work beautifully on the original platform they were developed on, and poorly on others (eclipse on mac, skype (before they re-wrote it for mac), itunes on windows, etc.) I'm all for nativeness.