Posts tagged with Mobile
Small Screens for Reading, Large Screens for Immersion
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is happening right now in Vegas, and I spent a few minutes today looking at all the latest hardware and gadgetry developments which are supposed to define consumer technology in 2016. There look to be…
The Future of Paid Software is Being Destroyed by App Stores
I’ve been down on apps—specifically, mobile apps—for a while now. Of course, I use and buy and enjoy them on my phone[1], but I’ve watched as the mobile app marketplace and economics have deteriorated. The…
Computer Literacy in a “Post-PC World”
I don’t buy the popular notion that we’re in an post-PC era. Of course, the proliferation of mobile devices has outpaced PCs to a large degree. They are accessible in a way that PCs never managed—the combination…
Whether Mobile Products Monopolize
I got in a brief discussion with the famous Startup L. Jackson on Twitter the other day. The thread started with a comment from me: @StartupLJackson Mobile is even more winner-take-all than web. — Allen Cheung (@allenmhc) August 13, 2015 We…
Using Web’s Emulation Capabilities Effectively
Does it sound defeatist to “give up” on web apps? Technically, it’s simple. The web cannot emulate native perfectly, and it never will. Native apps talk directly to the operating system, while web apps talk to the browser, which…
The Modularization of Microsoft
All the interesting news coming out of Microsoft from their Build conference revolves around interoperation. Across desktop and mobile, they’re courting developers with initiatives – Visual Studio in OS X, Android apps running in Windows, cross-compilation of Objective-C – that ought…
