2014年7月7日星期一

The subsequently time of smartphones

The subsequently time of smartphones

It’s at this moment 7 years since the iPhone reset the phone topic, and indeed the complete computing and internet businesses. But it was pretty patent by the point with the aim of the main iPhone was an MVP, and Google’s main Android… deference, the HTC G1, was even supplementary so. It feels relatively like the remaining 7 years be inflicted with been spent adding together all the things with the aim of really desired to befall near to start with, both in the sphere of hardware and software. Designed for iOS and machine these be inflicted with occur in the sphere of separate guidelines, since their opening assumptions were very separate, but they’ve ended up by much the same place in the sphere of vocabulary of the user experience and interaction mode. Near are insignificant differences in the sphere of how you interrelate, and near are for ever and a day things with the aim of are on lone platform otherwise the other, but the chief user flows are very like, and almost all the obvious gaps be inflicted with been crammed.

Along these outline, my colleague Steven Sinofsky makes the aspect with the aim of designed for whichever contemporary ‘thing' in the sphere of computing, by the launch all is liability roughly the same stuff for the reason that the stuff you need to add is pretty obvious and undifferentiated - you might release separate things in the sphere of separate guidelines but you’ve got basically the same hope for slant. It’s on one occasion you’ve finished building unfashionable with the aim of stuff with the aim of things start to diverge.

This, I think, is what did you say? We ongoing to make out by this year’s WWDC and Google IO - the conclusion of the main 7 years and the start of a contemporary time, with the fundamental font of Apple and Google asserting themselves. Having the status of Jean-Louis Gassée position it, iOS 8 is really iOS 2.0

Therefore, WWDC was all vis-а-vis cloud having the status of an enabler of rich native apps, while the the largest part fascinating parts of IO were vis-а-vis eroding the difference concerning apps and websites. In the sphere of expectations versions of machine, Chrome tabs and apps appear calm in the sphere of the task slant, search results can link straightforwardly to content surrounded by apps and Chromebooks can run machine apps - it seems with the aim of Google is irritating to succeed ‘app versus web’ an irrelevant argument - all content command exploit like part of the mess, searchable and linkable by Google. Conversely designed for Apple, a grouping of iOS 8 is vis-а-vis removing reasons to expend the mess by all, pulling supplementary and supplementary of the cloud into apps, while extensions create a better relatively than less significant gap concerning what did you say? ‘apps’ and ‘web sites’ are, allowing apps to discussion to all other and access all others’ cloud services with no always sad the mess.

Unlike the before differences in the sphere of idea concerning the platforms, which were mostly (to generalise massively) vis-а-vis method relatively than outcome, these, especially having the status of they evolve spread in excess of point, aspect to chief differences in the sphere of how you organize things on the two platforms, and in the sphere of what did you say? It would even mean to organize given tasks on all.The user flows suit separate. The interaction models suit separate. I’ve understood otherwise with the aim of Apple’s get in touch with is vis-а-vis a dumb cloud enabling rich apps while Google’s is vis-а-vis policy having the status of dumb goblet with the aim of are endpoints of cloud services. That’s free to hint to relatively separate experiences, and to always supplementary development discussions surrounded by companies having the status of to what did you say? Sort of facial appearance they create across the two platforms and someplace they place their priorities. It in addition changes somewhat the character of the narrative with the aim of the generic reallocate of computing from resident policy to the cloud is a structural badly behaved designed for Apple, since what did you say? We mean, exactly, as we say ‘cloud’ on smartphones needs to befall unpicked relatively supplementary. That's a focus designed for my subsequently mail.

Meanwhile, this sort of divergence is why I’m a trivial skeptical vis-а-vis the other two large reveals in the sphere of the remaining connect of month: The Fire Phone and movable Facebook’s announcements by F8. Facebook is irritating to build essential plumbing to link the mess and apps calm, in the sphere of fussy with its deep linking project. But this is like building the plumbing designed for a building that’s still free up, and someplace you don’t know what did you say? Its free to look like. Making tools to link apps and the mess calm as Apple and Google are shifting the definitions of what did you say? Folks vocabulary mean is free to befall challenging.

Amazon has a better badly behaved. The largest part perceptibly, supplementary and supplementary of what did you say? It income to befall ‘Android’ command occur from the congested Google services with the aim of aren't part of AOSP and with the aim of it doesn’t be inflicted with access to. If Amazon wants to free-ride on the machine app ecosystem, it command need to fritter supplementary and supplementary point replicating the Google machine APIs with the aim of the apps it wants are using, or else the apps now won’t drive - presuming with the aim of Amazon even has the sorts of search-led assets to organize with the aim of. But supplementary fundamentally, AOSP is being pulled along by Google’s aims, and command adjustment in the sphere of radical and unexpected ways. This isn’t like building on Linux - it may well befall supplementary like taking a fork of DOS now otherwise Windows 3.1 came unfashionable. Are we quite absolutely (to speculate wildly designed for rhetorical effect) with the aim of we won’t befall running machine apps in the sphere of a sandbox on our ChromeOS phones in the sphere of 5 years? Someplace would with the aim of leave Amazon’s fork? AOSP is not necessarily a neutral, transparent platform designed for Amazon to build on.



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