Comments on: A Titanium Tablet?

By: ipads

ipads — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:31:24 +0000

I think that is cool and the upcomming api developments look really interesting.

By: ExtAnimal

ExtAnimal — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:34:44 +0000

So Apple are trying to sell half a laptop now?

Who’s going to buy *that*?

By: genericallyloud

genericallyloud — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:13:55 +0000

@rdza – I think the idea is that even though you can’t necessarily use exactly the same code and expect it to run perfectly on all platforms, because it’s all web stuff it’s at least reusable. Even if you could only get 50% reuse between platforms, that’s more than you’d get if you use the native language/API for each platform. I imagine that between mobile platforms, you could get higher than that, but because of the tech used, it can even be reused on the desktop and the browser.

By: SteveElbows

SteveElbows — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:20:30 +0000

Despite Apples control freak gatekeeper nature, when it comes to the web side of things I dont think they have done much harm. For example when they did stuff like css transforms, they played nice by offering it up for inclusion in proper web standards. Webkit is good and their resistance to flash on the iphone may end up helping the standards-based web. Yes they impose limits on users and native app developers for iphone, yes the success of their app store has some unpleasant implications, but from a web-developers point of view there is not so much to hate and its hard to compare them to microsoft considering the harm ms cause with their browsers and more recent stuff like silverlight.

By: Joeri

Joeri — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:14:51 +0000

@sartre: Apple has always been worse than microsoft. People put up with it from apple because they can leave apple any time they want (really, they can!). Personally I think it hurts their bottom line. I’m sure they could make more money by being “the good guy” to their customers.

By: sartre

sartre — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:24:28 +0000

There is no better example of double standards withn tech community than apple’s closed and prorietory systems (iphone,itunes,appstore). Ten years ago everyone climbed on the bandwagon beating up microsoft for being monopolistic. But not a peep from the fanboys anymore. So here we are developing to several different emerging standards and hoping Apple will throw some crumbs our way. Pathetic.

By: SteveElbows

SteveElbows — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:44:46 +0000

Im looking to use html5, css3 and hopefully webGL to develop great sites & webapps for the apple tablet. Initially I will focus on that platform, but because of the standards used I would anticipate that apple tablet sites will actually help the push towards html5 etc in the wider world of web browsing rather than get in the way.

By: rdza

rdza — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:49:13 +0000

“This isn’t about write once run anywhere, but it is about offering advanced solutions to deliver experiences across the devices using shared code, services, and APIs.”

To me that reads, “it’s not, but it is” [about write once run anywhere].
I pray we won’t have yet another land grab for proprietary platform app namespace (or a continuation of the iphone one).
Someone surprise us with a fully baked w3c device api implementation in webkit core that apple (and google) actually ship so the web truly can be _the_ platform.
We’ll probably another year of this bs first though.