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Thursday, April 01, 2010

The Cloud and the Browser

Developing applications for desktop use is relatively straight forward since a developer needs only develop for Windows in order to access 90% of all computer users.  Alternatively they could produce a web application which runs on a server with the web providing a common interface.  This would give access to almost 100% of all internet connected users.

Applications for mobile are a different matter.  “There’s an app for that!” but most subscribers don’t have a mobile that runs the app!  The majority of apps run on top of the phone OS, some simple ones such as games are…

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