Can Web Standards Make Mobile Apps Obsolete? (arstechnica.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 28, 2015 @12:42PM from the better-web dept.

nerdyalien writes: There's a litany of problems with apps. There is the platform lock-in and the space the apps take up on the device. Updating apps is a pain that users often ignore, leaving broken or vulnerable versions in use long after they've been allegedly patched. Apps are also a lot of work for developers—it's not easy to write native apps to run on both Android and iOS, never mind considering Windows Phone and BlackBerry. What's the alternative? Well, perhaps the best answer is to go back to the future and do what we do on desktop computers: use the Web and the Web browser.

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So Steve Jobs was a visionary? by Spy+Handler · 2015-12-28 13:00 · Score: 4, Interesting

Steve Jobs, 2007: You can build amazing Javascript Web 2.0 apps for the iPhone! We didn't make a SDK because you don't need one.
Steve Jobs, 2008: Okay here's your SDK
Re:so.... Firefox OS? by binarylarry · 2015-12-28 14:01 · Score: 2, Interesting

Apple tried it and failed.
Firefox tried and LOL failed.
Google tried it and is failing (how many chromebook users do you know?)
Nope, no one wants HTML, CSS and Javascript shitapps.

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