I suppose it's a question of who is right in terms of the future. I have read so many articles that insult .net to the core, and it kills me. I'll never forget the guy who called the .NET Framework and it's set of development tools a McDonalds assembly line! Anyway, what I mean, is with all of this stuff leading to mobile development, does that mean that Microsoft is actually right and that the desktop computer, the on-premise server, the .NET Framework, and all the rest, are dying rather hard? I mean, seasoned developers like you guys, and learners like me, how much of our time is being wasted in this century?
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 3:33 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: More on cross-platform development I don't think you should try and port complex business applications to a phone, but specific features suit a phone. Dead right! Your salon app is a perfect example. But as progress produces more smaller and useful devices of various kinds we developers suffer with more code and app versions. I can live with that. In future, whenever anyone asks me about writing an app for any serious purpose, I'll ask them "... and what functionality of this new app would you like on a mobile device?". Gotta think about this right from the start from now on. Greg P.S. Although Metro apps still sit in some weird middle ground that worries me. I'm still disturbed on Win8 when I'm pushing big clunky touchy things around on my 2560x1440 monitor. I still haven't found a Metro app that impresses me yet, or one that comes anywhere near the functionality of my WinForms/WPF apps.
