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Firefox OS, Chrome OS and now Ubuntu throwing their weight behind HTML. Nice! Curiously, iOS have sort of taken the other path, beginning with only HTML apps a

Firefox OS, Chrome OS and now Ubuntu throwing their weight behind HTML. Nice! Curiously, iOS have sort of taken the other path, beginning with only HTML apps and then drifted away somewhat.

jacob019 13y ago
Who needs portability when you run fast and have achieved critical mass? Firefox OS, Chrome OS, and Ubuntu are all linux with tiny market share. I don't see many benefits for Apple.
- dynamic99 13y ago
  The benefits would be more developer-geared rather that beneficial for Apple.
  - sergiotapia 13y ago
    Lord knows the only reason why I haven't jumped on the iOS gravy train is Objective-C.
    - mkaziz 13y ago
      It's actually kinda nice once you get used to it.
      - imissmyjuno 13y ago
        as long as you use that one IDE for it yes?
        wahnfrieden 13y ago
        I use vim for writing code, and the IDE for a couple tasks like running the simulator.
        pooriaazimi 13y ago
        You can use JetBrain's AppCode if you dislike (despise) Xcode :) It's written in Java, but at least it doesn't crash every couple of days (possibly corrupting(!) .xcodeproject files). And the Modern ObjC (with ARC, @properties, blocks, new @literals, awesome and useful clang errors, etc.) is much, much better than it was around iPhone OS 3.0! The signal/noise ratio of a typical iOS app is now maybe twice that of an app written in the bad old days.
    - dynamic99 13y ago
      Objective-C gets a bad wrap.
      - rurounijones 13y ago
        Off-topic. rap, not wrap. Quite an interesting history http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/05/its-bad-rap-not-bad-wrap/ http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/05/its-bad-rap-...
        jablan 13y ago
        I believe it's rep, not rap. Rep as a shorthand for reputation: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rep http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rep
        mistercow 13y ago
        It's not. There is also a phrase "bad rep", but it is distinct.
adamnemecek 13y ago
Even though it's probably not very popular, HTML + JS is also the preferred (only?) way of writing Metro apps for Windows.
- kevingadd 13y ago
  Not only in any fashion (.NET and C++ are still supported) but yeah, they do have a very strong dev pipeline for HTML.
- tonyedgecombe 13y ago
  It certainly isn't the only way and I'm not sure it's the preferred way.

Firefox OS, Chrome OS and now Ubuntu throwing their weight behind HTML. Nice! Curiously, iOS have sort of taken the other path, beginning with only HTML apps and then drifted away somewhat.

jacob019 13y ago

Who needs portability when you run fast and have achieved critical mass? Firefox OS, Chrome OS, and Ubuntu are all linux with tiny market share. I don't see many benefits for Apple.

dynamic99 13y ago
The benefits would be more developer-geared rather that beneficial for Apple.
- sergiotapia 13y ago
  Lord knows the only reason why I haven't jumped on the iOS gravy train is Objective-C.
  - mkaziz 13y ago
    It's actually kinda nice once you get used to it.
    - imissmyjuno 13y ago
      as long as you use that one IDE for it yes?
      - wahnfrieden 13y ago
        I use vim for writing code, and the IDE for a couple tasks like running the simulator.
      - pooriaazimi 13y ago
        You can use JetBrain's AppCode if you dislike (despise) Xcode :) It's written in Java, but at least it doesn't crash every couple of days (possibly corrupting(!) .xcodeproject files). And the Modern ObjC (with ARC, @properties, blocks, new @literals, awesome and useful clang errors, etc.) is much, much better than it was around iPhone OS 3.0! The signal/noise ratio of a typical iOS app is now maybe twice that of an app written in the bad old days.
  - dynamic99 13y ago
    Objective-C gets a bad wrap.
    - rurounijones 13y ago
      Off-topic. rap, not wrap. Quite an interesting history http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/05/its-bad-rap-not-bad-wrap/ http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/05/its-bad-rap-...
      - jablan 13y ago
        I believe it's rep, not rap. Rep as a shorthand for reputation: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rep http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rep
        mistercow 13y ago
        It's not. There is also a phrase "bad rep", but it is distinct.

adamnemecek 13y ago

Even though it's probably not very popular, HTML + JS is also the preferred (only?) way of writing Metro apps for Windows.

kevingadd 13y ago
Not only in any fashion (.NET and C++ are still supported) but yeah, they do have a very strong dev pipeline for HTML.
tonyedgecombe 13y ago
It certainly isn't the only way and I'm not sure it's the preferred way.