Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Wed Dec 5 18:03:55 CST 2012
HI Jim -- <<< Windows8 is well behind the curve and not serious predictions could be made for the next couple of years while waiting to see how well the product is adopted. >>> Yes, but have a look here is an inexpensive yet rather powerful Win8 Phone coming for USD249: http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/05/nokia-unveils-latest-windows-phone-8-device-lumia-620-packs-3-8-inch-clearblack-display-nfc-costs-249-before-taxes/ while iPhone5 is planned to be sold here for ~USD1200 (35,000RUB) and WinPhone8 - Lumia 920 for ~USD700 Thank you. -- Shamil Среда, 5 декабря 2012, 12:56 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>: > > > > >This is a very interesting article. > > I see little difference between observations made in Russia than the ones > made here. > > Developer are still going to write most apps for iOS for the next little > while as iPhone users are still willing to pay more but the market is > rapidly changing. I suspect Android will get an ever larger share of the app > market and prices as the number of good products continue to increase. > Windows8 is well behind the curve and not serious predictions could be made > for the next couple of years while waiting to see how well the product is > adopted. > > I believe there is quite a difference between apps and full applications and > games. Apps lend themselves well towards specific platforms as they are > small dedicated programs. Re-writing for another OS is not a huge task. > OTOH, when a program is a comprehensive application or game, re-designing > for another platform is a major venture especially for a small developer > team in a Startup company. This is where browser based HTML5 application > come into their own. > > Our browsers are still not at the point where a serious application can > achieve the performance matching a proprietary piece of software but I > believe that it is a only a temporary obstacle. JIT browser compiling is > under development and we should expect stellar speeds in the near future. > > Being able to write-once and deploy everywhere, on all platforms should be > possible in the future. > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov > Shamil > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 2:08 PM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The state of the web > > Hi Jim -- > > I have read this morning a poll of mobile apps devs companies > (http://slon.ru/appheroes/kakim-budet-rynok-prilozheniy-v-2013-godu-mnenie-r > azrabotchikov-858560.xhtml (in Russian)) - 66% vs. 33% suppose that native > mobile apps will dominate over HTML5 within the next five years. (Yes, I > realize that the mobile apps developers can be not the best polling source > for "native mobile apps vs. HTM5 apps" question)... > > Thank you. > > -- Shamil > > Вторник, 4 декабря 2012, 12:03 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >The web world is more than ever becoming "the" computer world. Most > > > development is now done on the web. Whether the Cloud will eventually > > > replace most in-house server based systems is debatable and will require > > > much more security, management and backup features before it will be > > > completely trustable. > > > > > > Apple, via Steve Jobs, stopped the whole advance of plug-in technology which > > > was patching up browser functionality. It was not done for altruistic > > > reasons but to stop third party application from skipping the Apple toll > > > booth. But it did have a very important unexpected side-affect. It made > > > browser designers dependant on open standards, superfast browsers, gave them > > > the ability/responsibility for controlling security, that plug-in would > > > never allow and the dominance of HTML5 and CSS3. > > > > > > Whether Mark Zuckerberg, likes or dislikes HTML5 is not important as the > > > proprietary insecure plug-in world of the past is dead and dying...in fact > > > he is trying to buck the tide. How many users will allow another vulnerable > > > plug-in to install on their system so they can play a game or two? The other > > > option is to use a proprietary server language. It can be built very fast > > > but it does not take long before thousands of users will grind the whole > > > system to a stop and then huge farms of special servers have to > > > integrated...very expensive to own and very expensive to maintain. Those > > > type of application solutions, on so many levels are no longer workable. > > > > > > The new web world is more and more evolving into distributive open > > > standards, where data presentation is managed on the browsers and delegating > > > servers for only managing the data marshalling, gathering and storing. > > > > > > >http://www.thesecuritypractice.com/the_security_practice/2012/11/in-defense > - > > > of-html5-1.html > > > > > > Jim > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > dba-Tech mailing list > > > >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > > >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > >