On Sunday, 21 June 2015 at 11:56:13 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Sunday, 21 June 2015 at 10:13:22 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Do you think it's wise to ignore 2 billion users? The size of
the mobile market doesn't mean you can target it entirely. The
article suggests currently we have era of services and
services are clustered by culture, which means you can't
target users outside of your cultural cluster, while desktop
applications usually target entire desktop market without
exceptions.
Apparently most new apps nowadays are ignoring that legacy
desktop market.
You mean services?
As for cultural clusters, that's changing as they're now
starting to bleed into each other: look at Office on
Android/iOS and the multi-window stuff coming to mobile devices.
Huh? Cultural clusters like nation, country clusters. If you make
US-oriented news service, you can't target even EU users not
speaking about China.
It will be desktop for all practical purposes, just more
constrained in resources. Mobile platform will embrace two
unrelated ecosystems, and you will still have to choose which
ecosystem you target, and since desktop is a minority, why you
would care about mobile desktop? It will be minority for all
the same reasons that make desktop minority.
That's like saying current PCs are "mainframes for all
practical purposes, just more constrained in resources," you
honestly believe that too? ;)
And how do they differ?
The former dominant use case for computers, creating content or
getting work done, are a small part of what computers are
bought and used for nowadays.
Yes, if smartphones do that, they will become desktop.
So yes, the desktop UI is a niche, but a moderately large niche
that is about to move to mobile devices also.
Yes, but your claim is that desktop will die, not move.
devs are certainly not dealing with that complexity at all.
Yes, that's the problem with web: devs can't get web right for
decades already, that's also one of the reasons for mobile apps
to exist.
