Reverse productivity
If someone could please explain to me why this application is in the “Productivity” category of iPhone applications, I would really like to know.
The entire application consists of a “game” of holding a button on your iPhone (or iPod touch) for as long as possible. Unshockingly, “Hold On” is the name of the application, and also the entire instruction manual.
The “app” is by IMAK Creations, and I can only assume it was their first attempt.
Funny!
At the very least, they’ve got people talking and linking, and that can’t be bad.
Everyone, everywhere, wants to go offline
Just saw this article on Webware about Prism, which is technology for extending applications beyond the browser. Yes, there are times when the cloud is just not available.
Very, very cool.
We already have Google Gears, of course, and Adobe AIR (on which some amazing apps are being built), and Microsoft’s Silverlight. And I’m sure there’s many I haven’t heard of yet …
The question is: are all of these frameworks for seamless online/offline development going to survive, or will one or two take the lion’s share of the market?
Whatever happens, these are good times to be a web developer, as with a little effort you’re now able to make your application run close to desktop-quality, even when there’s no internet connection.
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