Posts tagged “mobile development”

The PHP vs. C battle was decided by Moore's Law: hardware outpaced complexity. But HTML vs. Obj-C is different. Unlike PHP's server-side slowness, HTML's performance gap is visible to users right now. If a competitor can build a better native experience before Moore's Law saves you, you're done.

Apple's ban on intermediate platforms kills our hopes of building iPhone apps with web technologies. It's shortsighted: the web is the world's biggest development platform. Native apps are better now, but that won't last. The web always wins eventually. Until then, learn Objective-C.

PPK says iPhone devs should build web apps to avoid App Store gatekeeping, then walks it back due to missing APIs and no easy payment option. He's right that some apps could go web-based, but Apple's real power is their mobile payment solution. They should open that up independently.