The annual Consumer Electronics Show is happening right now in Vegas, and I spent a few minutes today looking at all the latest hardware and gadgetry developments which are supposed to define consumer technology in...
I’ve been down on apps—specifically, mobile apps—for a while now. Of course, I use and buy and enjoy them on my phone[1], but I’ve watched as the mobile app marketplace...
I don’t buy the popular notion that we’re in an post-PC era. Of course, the proliferation of mobile devices has outpaced PCs to a large degree. They are accessible in a way that PCs never managed—the combination of low costs, mobility, and ease of use has given the phone a reach that...
I got in a brief discussion with the famous Startup L. Jackson on Twitter the other day. The thread started with a comment from me: @StartupLJackson Mobile is even more winner-take-all than web. — Allen Cheung (@allenmhc) August 13, 2015 We went a bit back and forth on the characteristics of mobile products vs. web products....
Does it sound defeatist to “give up” on web apps? Technically, it’s simple. The web cannot emulate native perfectly, and it never will. Native apps talk directly to the operating system, while web apps...
All the interesting news coming out of Microsoft from their Build conference revolves around interoperation. Across desktop and mobile, they’re courting developers with initiatives – Visual Studio in OS X, Android apps running in Windows,...
