In my mind it is totally premature to abandon native apps and the Market. As far as mobile apps are concerned, native apps are the only viable way to leverage mobile apps into platform market share for years to come. It is a mistake not to at least give it a better shot, and to leverage the Android API that gives Android a competitive edge into putting the crowd of devs into a position to bridge the gap. That's an obvious approach to me, as other platforms are struggling to shoehorn app development into their given coordinate systems. At any rate, this kind of approach will chase devs away from Android, right into the arms of Apple, all the while browser based app development remains elusive. It only takes a quick checkup of Google Maps API 3 to find that the mobile side just isn't there, and might never will be. Similar things can be said about HTML 5. In the end, this strategy might turn against Android itself, as devs have defected to Apple, allowing Apple to gain increasing market share. By the time Google could point to a viable ecosystem of browser based apps, it might already be irrelevant to Google (read: Android gone, at least on handsets).
Another issue that the panelists that support the all-out browser argument, at least to me, underestimate, are the challenges that the constraints of carrier spectrum, coverage and ground capacity put on mobile apps. Given the current progress, it will takes years, perhaps a decade, for networks to support an all out web browser based approach, at least here in the US. On Jul 18, 2:28 am, "Eric Wong (hdmp4.com)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Great article but I doubt that will actually happen anytime soon. > > Even if that becomes true, there is always a reason that a locally > installed apk is required. E.g. patchy 3G coverage. > > I think it is more like Google do not see themselves making much > profit through Android Market. Hence, not willing to put more > resources on it. > > Cheers > Eric > > On Jul 18, 5:19 pm, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > >http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/07/app-stores-are-not-the-future-sa... > > > Sounds like they're not committed to Markets future. > > > Al. > > > -- > > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* > > > ====== > > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > > subsidiaries. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
