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I still remember when the original iPhone came out without support for native 3rd party software development, and Steve Jobs said with a perfectly straight face
by WiseWeasel 15y ago
I still remember when the original iPhone came out without support for native 3rd party software development, and Steve Jobs said with a perfectly straight face that the web is our SDK. Faced with the capabilities offered by native first party software at the time, it didn't fly then, (and that was on a phone, not a laptop), and I just don't see things having progressed enough in the four years since then for it to fly now. Maybe if they try again in another four years, when the state-of-the-art of web software and service creation and usage will have advanced a bit more, they'd encounter more enthusiastic support for this product. Hopefully, they haven't nixed the whole project by that point.
- lukifer 15y agoBrowser capabilities have come a long way since 2007, and the use cases are very different between mobile consumer apps and business apps. While ChromeBooks aren't able to fill every need, I bet they could still fit the needs of a lot of organizations. I've worked in at least a couple places where every single business app was web-based.