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So let me get this straight - Pixate wants people to build native iOS apps with CSS.... um, ARENT WE JUST RE-IMPLMENTING THE WEB PEOPLE?! Jesus! The one valid

by alttab 14y ago

So let me get this straight - Pixate wants people to build native iOS apps with CSS.... um, ARENT WE JUST RE-IMPLMENTING THE WEB PEOPLE?! Jesus! The one valid use case for native apps is games, everything else can be solved with web apps. Why we are going out of our way to re-implement the ease of web development on native apps should fucking tell you something. On top of all this, they want to charge you $199 for it? Disregarding the topic of whether or not Pixate itself is commercially viable, but it makes me feel like XML-RPC all over again. Wasn't that what HTTP was for in the first place? We go through all this crap to make making "apps" convenient. Ultimately the answer was in front of us the whole time we were just too stupid to see it. The web will win. SECREST OUT!

rimantas 14y ago
> everything else can be solved with web apps. Key word there is can. You sure cab try and sometimes succeed in replicating native specialized components with html, js and css cobled together, and maybe even to get it to work more or less OK. But why? > the ease of web development You gotta be kidding. Developing web apps is not easy. Developing cross-platform mobile web apps is even harder. Developing mobile web apps of comparable to native performance is extremely difficult. I wonder is there anyone who after spending some time to properly learn either native SDK still prefers builng mobile apps with the web stack. > The web will win. The web will win what? Is there a war? A race? What I think will eventually win is understanding what the web is for, what the apps are for and what is the best tool for the job. Trying to fit a square peg into a round hole cannot win.