{"id":57,"date":"2011-01-12T13:40:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T20:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writtinfool.com\/times\/?p=57"},"modified":"2012-05-13T22:40:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T05:40:38","slug":"future-of-phone-apps-and-java","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writtinfool.com\/times\/2011\/01\/future-of-phone-apps-and-java\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of Phone Apps and Java"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend sent me this link to some forecasts about IT trends in the coming year. The short of it is that Big IT companies are still short sited: http:\/\/www.devx.com\/wireless\/Article\/46231?trk=DXRSS_WEBDEV<\/a><\/p>\n

New edit change<\/p>\n

My friends impression is that “If the larger companies bail on it (developing phone apps), what have we got to lose? It might be a good idea to stick with.”<\/p>\n

After I read the article. I had to agree. Oracle seems to be pillaging Java and people are moving to alternatives. For Myself, I think the future of desktop apps is JavaScript or Action-script run-time engines like Air, Mozilla or Webkit. But I really think the future of apps in general, is Ajax web clients talking to web services.<\/p>\n

Most big corporations and institutions can’t see beyond 30 or 90 days. \u00c2\u00a0 Anything that doesn’t payoff in a short window, they dump. This makes for a lot of opportunities for people with any kind\u00c2\u00a0 off vision.<\/p>\n

For the article comments about Java, remember most programming is done not for the internet but for big businesses to keep track of themselves. I would say 2\/3 of our development where I work, is for internal use. That is where Java has been used, for data driven internal applications and reports that are wrapped in a lot of security. It’s all turning into a big bloated beast. This is what slimmer web service based development will replace.<\/p>\n

I think phone apps are the tip of a new floating iceberg of embedded app development for the masses. Maybe is a few years we may look at the whole idea for desktop apps as a quaint reminder of good old days past.
\nAnyway that is my two cents for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend sent me this link to some forecasts about IT trends in the coming year. The short of it is that Big IT companies are still short sited: http:\/\/www.devx.com\/wireless\/Article\/46231?trk=DXRSS_WEBDEV New edit change My friends impression is that “If the larger companies bail on it (developing phone apps), what have we got to lose? It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,7,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-apple","category-cell-phones","category-droid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writtinfool.com\/times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writtinfool.com\/times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writtinfool.com\/times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writtinfool.com\/times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writtinfool.com\/times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.writtinfool.com\/times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/www.writtinfool.com\/times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writtinfool.com\/times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writtinfool.com\/times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writtinfool.com\/times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}