Web Applications on the iPad
Linked by Kroc Camen on Thu 28th Jan 2010 17:29 UTC
Web 2.0 Wolfire writes: "Today, Apple announced the new iPad and humbly claimed that there will be a "gold rush" of native apps for the App Store. Sure, but what I find more interesting is that Apple also ironically created the most promising open web app platform, which may eventually undermine the App Store itself. [...] The iPad is the first mainstream device which combines all of the following factors: reasonably powerful hardware, a (potentially) huge user base, a mature WebKit implementation, and constant 3G internet capabilities. All the dominoes are in place, and I think that the iPad will knock the first one down."
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RE: The Real Reason
by Kroc on Fri 29th Jan 2010 12:55 UTC in reply to "The Real Reason"
Kroc
Member since:
2005-11-10

OS X on the iPhone does multi-task, it's BSD underneath, there's probably Grand Central Dispatch in there! The UI doesn't present a multi-tasking paradigm, that's all. Apple have specifically decided that app sandboxes cannot multitask.

The reason is for UI experience. At no point should the iPad ever feel slow, for nothing. No matter how long you've used it, no matter how many apps you install. The computer, shouldn't do technical things that require technical explanations to the end user. Users do not, and cannot understand the under-the-hood implications that cause a computer to run slow, only we can grasp that.

Apple cares more about what the experience the user *has* than what we geeks *want*.

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RE[2]: The Real Reason
by kragil on Fri 29th Jan 2010 13:16 in reply to "RE: The Real Reason"
kragil Member since:
2006-01-04

Well you could archieve that by using a realtime kernel .. the thing is Apple has no such kernel.

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