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The technology gaps are going to take forever to close for two reasons. First, because the web as an app platform is a disorganized pile of bad hacks, which mak
by pekk 12y ago
The technology gaps are going to take forever to close for two reasons. First, because the web as an app platform is a disorganized pile of bad hacks, which makes every fix harder. Second, the great point you made about how the web is bound by waiting for standards, then waiting for widespread compliance with those standards. This guarantees it's always far behind. And the pile of crap is only growing, making it more and more appealing to just leave the web behind for anything that makes it easier to get nice results.
- sergiosgc 12y ago> The technology gaps are going to take forever to close for two reasons. (...) The secret is that the utility curve of technology is not flat. For example: when processors ran at 4Mhz, doubling the processor speed to 8Mhz had a much different utility value than when they doubled from 1.5Ghz to 3Ghz. As such, even if the technology gap doesn't close, ever, the utility values obtained from each technology will close, to the point of indifference. You can already observe some of this utility curve flattening, if you observe the absence of game changing feature announcements on WWDC and Google I/O.
- Tyrannosaurs 12y agoWe can agree or disagree about whether anything announced recently is significant (I'd suggest if you're a user then application interoperability is major and as an iPhone 5S user I find entering a PIN after using the fingerprint scanner feels positively stone age), but I'd struggle with the idea that smartphones are essentially feature complete and nothing significant will be coming down the line in the next few years.