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So embrace and extends tactics of closed platforms attracts people not willing to wait for the standard process to work its way to the same results, slowing it

by RRRA 13y ago

So embrace and extends tactics of closed platforms attracts people not willing to wait for the standard process to work its way to the same results, slowing it down in the process and jeopardizing the future of the open web?

protomyth 13y ago
The web has been around for over two decades. In less than two decades since the Altair 8800, we were programming on NeXTSTEP / OpenStep, Mac OS, and Window 95. There is no current IDE for the web or web standard that can do what we did in 1995 much less 2013. That's why developers are using iOS / Android native apps. Open doesn't matter if I cannot ship what I want and get the user experience I want. It is actually easier to hit all the mobile platforms than do a web app of equivalent functionality. Add to that all the capabilities native apps have over web apps (hey look, sensors) and you get the desire. This doesn't even count the assurances graphic designers have going native. Perhaps, it really is time to look at something past the web for app development and let the [edit] web [edit] go back to displaying documents.