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It's interesting that they seem to believe that they need to have iPad-like apps in order to compete in the consumer market. I certainly like my apps. However,
by tav 16y ago
It's interesting that they seem to believe that they need to have iPad-like apps in order to compete in the consumer market. I certainly like my apps. However, I also can't see how "native" apps could ever hope to compete against RESTful Web services of the future when the browser supports rich "native" functionality.
It sometimes feels like that I'm the only person in the tech world who feels this way. Am I being naive? Are "silo-ed" apps and app stores the only viable future?
- michaelneale 16y agoPerhaps - in that article it read to me like that was being as a bit of an excuse to move to android (of course it makes sense for many reasons). It certainly sounds better than "we stuffed up - going to android" - sell the upside !
- nikcub 16y agoWhen TC was still involved we were looking at Chromium OS - which wasn't ready, and also Android. If we stayed with the project there was a good chance that it would have been Android at launch (with support for Marketplace and all the other good things that come with Android)
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoIt the standard tech question of what's best for the consumer vs what people think will make them rich. You have to wait for all those people to fail to become rich before they go back to delivering what the consumer actually wants and/or needs.