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Re:The mobile app is going the way of the CD-ROM: To the dus... by pavel_lishin on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @09:00PM (#3218518)
A mobile device is just another client. The web was designed to be agnostic in that regard, was it not?
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Re:The mobile app is going the way of the CD-ROM: To the dus... by comedian on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @09:35PM (#3218598)
"When you have a hammer everything looks like a nail"

The web is just another computing paradigm with its own strengths and weaknesses. It's not the be all and end all of mobile.

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Re:The mobile app is going the way of the CD-ROM: To the dus... by comedian on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @09:23PM (#3218571)
no it was not. hence the need for "mobile" versions of websites and various hacks to make the web work on mobile devices.
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Re:The mobile app is going the way of the CD-ROM: To the dus... by bphogan on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @10:50PM (#3218787)
that's not the web's fault... that's the fault of most developers doing the web wrong, refusing to separate content from presentation.

If mobile users only need service-type apps, the web can provide that. Programmers just have to write the screens.

The Web is a dumb terminal. You fill in a form, press XMIT or the equivalent, and get the next screen. Just because someone decided that the content needs to be jammed in a 900px table cell doesn't mean the web can't do mobile too.

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Re:The mobile app is going the way of the CD-ROM: To the dus... by Groxx on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @09:27PM (#3218580)
How does that follow? That's saying that the mobile clients don't implement everything, not that http isn't agnostic.
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