Siu Lun

I recently had to look into mobile application developments and straight away, I thought, iPhone Apps.

iPhone Apps has been gaining ground and becoming ever increasingly popular. In my office, I reckon all the male have an iPhone. 3G, 3GS whatever.

And all of them buys and downloads apps!

Then somebody suggested to me to develop mobile apps as offline web-apps, then I thought straight away, that’s not right, I wanted offline access and web-apps on the iPhone are slow… then I decided to do a search anyway, as with technology, you never know what’s possible and I went and utilised the power of the world…

I found that… though I should’ve remembered as I read it a while back too… that mobile Safari does include offline access support therefore can deploy web-apps on the phone.

And there seems to be a lot of ‘evangelist’ for the mobile web-app ‘camp’. To a degree I think it is just over-hyped.

Still, the pure idea of click through Safari, then through to the mobile address still haunts me.

The art of UI and IA design is to minimise click through. One click more is a click too many.

So I think I’ll stick to my native apps until somebody develop a cross-platform web-app ‘platform’. This should be possible. Though whether Apple allows it, is a different story.

Later.