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I didn't really want to prognosticate what would happen to Axis, despite the promo video being _really_ really cringeworthy. But my doubts stem from the fact th
by swang 14y ago
I didn't really want to prognosticate what would happen to Axis, despite the promo video being _really_ really cringeworthy. But my doubts stem from the fact that regardless of whether or not it became successful, it's still dependent on Microsoft/Apple/Google to deliver this to users.
If it gains traction and people like the features it brings, whats to stop all the current major players in the Browser space from just copying it? This isn't exactly a social media site where no matter how much money is thrown into Facebook it comes out on top because of sheer number of users. This is completely dependent on attaching itself to a browser. I have to believe that they would eventually implement it into their browsers if it started making money or became very popular for Yahoo.
And the second thing, what happens when Apple decides that this thing is competing directly with Mobile Safari and kills it from its store (and surprise, the other two major players in the Browser space, Google and Microsoft, also own the app store Axis is trying to deploy to).
So the best outcome for this thing is to be just a moderate success, where the big 3 in browsers don't really have incentive/time/effort to implement directly into the browser.
- taligent 14y agoYou mean like when Apple killed Opera, Google Search, iCab Mobile, Atomic and the many other web browsers. Oh wait. They didn't. And there are plenty of replacements for the core apps: mail, contacts, calendar etc.
- te_chris 14y agoThat's just not fully true and you know it. You can't drop in a full replacement browser like on Android in iOS. All web rendering still has to be done using the native webkit.
- jsprinkles 14y agoYet the others are full replacement browsers. I'd call Safari and Chrome (on desktop) entirely different browsers, because the browser itself is designed a lot differently in each case. The way Opera Mini works, I'd certainly call Opera Mini a different browser from Mobile Safari. Who cares what the rendering tech is? Only Web designers and anal retentive people; everybody else just wants a browser experience, and doesn't give a shit. Honestly. If only WebKit apps are permitted that means they're paying attention to securing just WebKit, which is good from my perspective even as a developer that supports open-source. I'm betting that in the future Android will be the Windows of yesteryear, where the first thing you do is install a virus scanner. Apple is selling me on closed platforms so far.
- GeneralMaximus 14y ago> If only WebKit apps are permitted that means they're paying attention to securing just WebKit, which is good from my perspective even as a developer that supports open-source. I'm betting that in the future Android will be the Windows of yesteryear, where the first thing you do is install a virus scanner. Apple is selling me on closed platforms so far. What I'm taking away from this paragraph is that you're a developer who supports open source software, but not a developer who supports Free Software. Am I right?