No
Isn't this basically the exact same thing as pinned sites in IE9?
App Store = today's AOL keyword
The question on my mind is whether native development will continue to be the favored means of development on mobile platforms or if it will fade in favor of the browser as native development on the desktop largely has.…
It will, they just focused on UI and development ecosystem first and I'm sure the updated mobile IE will be a derivative of IE9 which isn't complete yet.
My theory is they wanted some way to get a bit of return on investment from WPF and thus WPF/E which became Silverlight. In 2007 or so who was to know that Apple would have the clout to almost singlehandedly drown RIAs…
Proprietary client side solutions don't make any sense with the advent of what is being called HTML5. Apple's refusal to support RIA platforms on iOS is just accelerating their demise.
XP, for example, has some level of support into 2014, so from a business perspective one can trust that they'll provide support for quite some time, that is something you won't get from Apple. How this has any bearing…
As pointed out the Zune lives on but I think it'd be difficult to argue it really made a substantive splash in the market despite arguably being a superior device as well as having the (imho) very strong Zune Pass…
No
Isn't this basically the exact same thing as pinned sites in IE9?
App Store = today's AOL keyword
The question on my mind is whether native development will continue to be the favored means of development on mobile platforms or if it will fade in favor of the browser as native development on the desktop largely has.…
It will, they just focused on UI and development ecosystem first and I'm sure the updated mobile IE will be a derivative of IE9 which isn't complete yet.
My theory is they wanted some way to get a bit of return on investment from WPF and thus WPF/E which became Silverlight. In 2007 or so who was to know that Apple would have the clout to almost singlehandedly drown RIAs…
Proprietary client side solutions don't make any sense with the advent of what is being called HTML5. Apple's refusal to support RIA platforms on iOS is just accelerating their demise.
XP, for example, has some level of support into 2014, so from a business perspective one can trust that they'll provide support for quite some time, that is something you won't get from Apple. How this has any bearing…
As pointed out the Zune lives on but I think it'd be difficult to argue it really made a substantive splash in the market despite arguably being a superior device as well as having the (imho) very strong Zune Pass…