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Atwood seems to completely miss one important point: doing an app is a greenfield project. It's the elusive complete rewrite, without the re-. A website like eB
by mseebach 15y ago
Atwood seems to completely miss one important point: doing an app is a greenfield project. It's the elusive complete rewrite, without the re-. A website like eBay has hundreds of small features, each of which needs to be considered and included in a redesign. An app can just focus on making the 10% of the features that the 90% use really good.
- bhauer 15y agoFrom the article: "To be fair, eBay is struggling under the massive accumulated design debt of a website originally conceived in the late 90s, whereas their mobile and tablet app experiences are recent inventions."
- yzhengyu 15y agoWell, if you have done your architecture reasonably well, you should be able to have your mobile app rely on the same service layers as your website.