Gave up on the article when he renamed Pluto. Feels like a rant, reads like a rant and it's nothing but a rant on how Cocoa is great compared to HTML5 and calls that "Linuxification".<p>Call me back when every phone runs Cocoa apps.
To me, the most important sentence in this article was actually one that seems to invalidate his main point:<p>> I don't want to install an app for a one-time hotel room reservation<p>Most of my time spent on my phone is spent doing mundane things, like using wikipedia or making hotel reservations. I would rather not use an app for these things, and would gladly sacrifice a bit of usability for the convenience of not having to leave the web browser.
For those not familiar with his work, Benjamin is an excellent designer and certainly a purveyor of future web tech (a visit to deaxon.com will offer a great example). However, I feel like this post has come a bit too soon. Yes, as it stands native apps are more powerful than mobile web apps built on HTML5, CSS3, JS, etc., though, I think we're only at the onset of this technology. While there does seem to be a fair amount of hype behind mobile web apps these days, seasoned developers know when switching to an HTML/JS only app is suitable. That being said, we can't ask everything of a spec that hasn't even been recommended yet, or languages that have only been around for a couple of years (in some cases months). These things take time. It's good people are hyped because that can only mean a positive future with more rapid innovation. If we're still in the same spot as we are now in a year, feel free to start the onslaught.
I went in thinking this would be about the process model gaining traction with the new release of Heroku only to find a rant on native vs mobile iOS apps. Horrible title.
Imagine we had a clean slate. We wanted to design a technology stack that would fill the space that's currently filled by browser+javascript+dom+css+html. We don't need to use those technologies, just to fill that space. What should we do differently than the world has done?