"There will always"
reminds me of that James Bond film, "Never Say Never Again" . . . better
be careful
with pronouncements like that.
Richmond.
On 11.04.19 г. 11:12 ч., Andre Garzia via use-livecode wrote:
People forget that speed and latency are not related. Solving latency
on networked apps is tricky.
There will always be a place for Desktop apps (local apps on your
computer I mean)
On 10/04/2019 22:53, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
Paul Dupuis wrote:
> Of course this may all be a mute point if you believe the "industry
> analysts" that say that 5G networks will kill the market for local
> applications whether for iOS, Android, or desktop OSes and finally web
> app will be fast enough :-)
All networks can get faster, but I'm with Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
in not holding my breath for 5G to be anything close to the magic
pony marketers are playing it up to be:
"5G or faux G?: Forget all those stories of 20 Gbps speeds and 1
millisecond latency. 5G will never deliver performance like that —
and anyway its time is still years away for most of us most of the
time."
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3336119/5g-or-faux-g.html
EFF has a similar view:
"Enough of the 5G Hype"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/enough-5g-hype
...and an alternative infrastructure proposal that will benefit
existing devices as well as the someday-soon-no-really 5G access points:
"The U.S. Desperately Needs a 'Fiber for All' Plan"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/us-desperately-needs-fiber-all-plan
With or without infrastructure improvements, I expect mobile to
remain a steady growth segment. But by "steady" I mean only slightly
more than half of Internet traffic, with laptops being most of the
remainder.
If Job's metaphor of the "post-PC" era means phones are cars and
laptops are trucks, observe that the most popular auto form factor in
the US is the SUV - effectively, a truck. :)
We're now a decade into the "post-PC" era, and Apple stills sells
Macs. Lots of them. More than iPads, which have leveled off to
negative growth.
It's not just developers who need full computers. It's everyone who
isn't just a grazer: every artist, every writer, everyone making
presentations. Nearly everyone. You can do those things on a phone,
just not as well. With your thumbs.
For all the articles about the so-called "post-PC" era, I doubt any
were typed with thumbs on a phone.
If only those writers could observe themselves as they work....
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