Re:A new development era
by graue on Saturday January 26, 2013 @05:08PM
(#5121983)
> The web is for large quantities of stuff, with low signal to noise; desktop apps are for focusing
Interesting point, noted!
> YouTube does have a native iOS app, which I find to be much better [..] on my iPad
Yup, hence my spelling out that there's no native desktop app. With mobile apps we have a few confounding factors:
* less-powerful processors that may be unacceptably slowed down by the HTML/JS layer
* immaturity of multitouch and notification APIs in JavaScript
* limited (if any?) support for putting pure web apps on your home screen, or in an app store
As the APIs mature and tablet and smartphone processors get faster, I expect there to be fewer and fewer reasons to do fully-native apps. But yes, of course, they do offer a better experience today.
Interesting point, noted!
> YouTube does have a native iOS app, which I find to be much better [..] on my iPad
Yup, hence my spelling out that there's no native desktop app. With mobile apps we have a few confounding factors:
* less-powerful processors that may be unacceptably slowed down by the HTML/JS layer
* immaturity of multitouch and notification APIs in JavaScript
* limited (if any?) support for putting pure web apps on your home screen, or in an app store
As the APIs mature and tablet and smartphone processors get faster, I expect there to be fewer and fewer reasons to do fully-native apps. But yes, of course, they do offer a better experience today.