Great, your app is device-specific, doesn't mean it's made from the Statue of David
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Speaking about the fascination of people to focus on the idea that only device-specific native apps are “good”. Hasn’t it always been easy to call works of art good. Isn’t it harder to defend compromise, as a means of getting shit done. I would love to have a Lamborghini, but I can drive a ford focus to work, and I am no worse off. Thinking that apps are only okay because they are device specific, and chiseled from the statue of david is fucking insane.
If you look at something like the Google Voice app, which is a HTML5 App, it can live inside any HTML5 browser and work. Which means they have taken one app, and increased its effectiveness twenty fold. There app is ready to run on Google TV if it supports some kind of HTML5 container.
A flurry of activity has happened on this subject over the last 24 hours, well a flurry in my world.
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Eric Myer: If you don’t like the AppStore create a WebAppStore
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Neven Mrgan: Why isn’t there a good SDK for the web
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And daring fireball talking about this stuff too