Mobile Dev Rap Battle: Native Code vs. Web Apps

This mobile rap battle has been brought to you by Matthias Shapiro (native apps) and Jason Alderman (web apps) for live presentation at Ignite Salt Lake, March 4, 2010. www.ignitesaltlake.com Slides created by Jason Alderman. They can be found at www.flickr.com Jason: You bought three coding books for reading on your Kindle, They never got read, the whole deal is a swindle, Pony annual fees for app sales, then they tax it, I’m telling you man, that app store is a racket! You are MUCH better off with HTML– The web page markup that I know you know well– The latest spec lets you store data on phones Even when offline, but the browser phones home! Your iPhone, Android, Palm, soon Blackberry: Local data storage! SQL! it’s no worry! Matthias: Cross platform apps are a real seduction But you give up your form, and most of your function And your app, it hobbles in the passing lane Like a one-legged zombie but with far less brains Running your crap on the web, no performance Mine is greased lightning, you run like a tortoise You don’t understand the mental model users are adopting They don’t want to hit the web, they want one-stop shopping Here’s how you make an application fun Turn it on, do your thing, turn it off and you’re done Jason: When the iPhone came out, sure the browser was slow, But the new smartphones? half a gigahertz or mo’ That’s faster than the box on which your mom does her taxes Pretty snappy–WinME!–, but now it’s like molasses In praxis? I already write

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