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Developer's Corner / Re: Essay: Mobile Sites vs. Apps: The Coming Strategy Shift
« Last post by 40hz on February 14, 2012, 07:07 AM »The entire question would be rendered moot if a high quality, high availability, high reliability, cost effective wireless broadband was a reality rather than a marketing spiel.
The tail that wags the dog is the connection to the network. Until it becomes as transparent and worry free as landline telecommunications currently are you can split hairs endlessly and summarize your (likely obvious) findings in $300 reports until the cows come home.
Right now, mobile apps make more sense and provide a better user experience because we don't have enough mobile bandwidth to make any other alternative work across the board. No news there. Much like the lack of paved roads stalled the adoption of the automobile until everyone got fed up enough with the predations of the railroads that municipalities and states finally built the roads that ultimately sunk the railroads.
Right now, it seems big software publishers are trying to get personal computing to do the opposite and convince people to go from operating their own vehicle to riding a public passenger train instead. "Software as a service" is no different than "transportation as a service" in that regard.
I don't think it's a strategy that's going to pay off in the long run although there may (out of necessity) be short-term consumer acceptance. Or, more correctly, acquiescence.
The tail that wags the dog is the connection to the network. Until it becomes as transparent and worry free as landline telecommunications currently are you can split hairs endlessly and summarize your (likely obvious) findings in $300 reports until the cows come home.
Right now, mobile apps make more sense and provide a better user experience because we don't have enough mobile bandwidth to make any other alternative work across the board. No news there. Much like the lack of paved roads stalled the adoption of the automobile until everyone got fed up enough with the predations of the railroads that municipalities and states finally built the roads that ultimately sunk the railroads.
Right now, it seems big software publishers are trying to get personal computing to do the opposite and convince people to go from operating their own vehicle to riding a public passenger train instead. "Software as a service" is no different than "transportation as a service" in that regard.
I don't think it's a strategy that's going to pay off in the long run although there may (out of necessity) be short-term consumer acceptance. Or, more correctly, acquiescence.
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