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I can't help but find his arrogance about being right annoying, especially when he points to how battery technology hasn't improved since Kennedy was in power,
by hnriot 14y ago
I can't help but find his arrogance about being right annoying, especially when he points to how battery technology hasn't improved since Kennedy was in power, which is just ignorant and wrong. Much of the limiting growth in mobile computing power has been gated by battery power and steadily the technology has improved.
The debate has been going on since the browser was created, and it's really not a debate at all, the HTML to render a text box and the iOS native code to do so all call the same operating system library anyway, it's just a matter of where the development team decide to draw the line between ease if install and development vs speed and a richer user experience. This is fluid and shifts over the years as browser technology becomes more expressive.
But I dislike reading articles that are just full of weasel wording, no examples to back up his points and technology inaccuracies.