On 16 October 2012 20:44, Eliot Miranda <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:55 AM, dimitris chloupis <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Frankly , I don't find web development that much useful and certainly >> don't believe that web is the future. My money is on the desktop. > > > I wouldn't put your money on the desktop. While reports of the desktop's > demise are premature, it's no longer growing. The desktop is alive and well > but in a niche. The future (actually the present) is on the smart phone, > or embedded in almost anything. We may spend or time in front of a desktop > but the world is watching, touching, feeling, listening and speaking to > their phone.
To me those gadgets is just highly portable personal computers. The big paradigm shift, is that they are always connected to network, while for desktop systems this was ultimately not necessary and optional. > > The phone however is a mobile device and hence it needs the internet and the > web is the internet's gui, at least its non-proprietary gui (iTunes, > appStore et al being the proprietary guis). The iPhone shows that framework > is more important than programming language, and that js isn't necessarily > important for mobile, but it is considered neutral compared to e.g. flash. > Yes, you cannot speak or watch anything on the phone without being connected, because all content is delivered via network, and without connection (GPS/4G/WIFI) those gadgets is just useless pieces of glass and plastic. But regarding your comment about framework, i am not so sure. Maybe i am blind, but Apple frameworks don't impress me to the point that i could tell that it is far superior to anything existing. And take a look at xcode.. it just don't delivers. In fact, this is the worst integrated development environment i ever used before. Especially considering how much human/engineering resources Apple has. IMO, the reason why developers rush for iphone market is much much more simpler: MONEY.. Everyone thinks that they can sell their content to the millions and get rich fast (dreams, dreams).. Take the popularity of Objective-C language, for example: it was existed long before iphone(s).. and where it was? It skyrocketed in popularity just after i<cool expensive stuff> appeared.. So, saying that this is because "it so cool has uber frameworks" is sweet lies. During rush, people paying little attention to such insignificant detail(s) like language or framework. -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
