I like HTML 5. Its not quite there functionally, but its has a lot of promise in saving costs and reducing time to market.
For years we have made apps for cell phones (Brew, J2ME, Palm, Apple, Blackberry, Android, etc). For years our costs keep going up and the ROI is never as good as it should be. For years the control of our future are in the hands of carriers and now handset companies.
While app stores will be great for certain kinds of apps such as games; there is no reason why we need to build a $100K app for a content site.
HTML5 would give us
- Richer apps that use local data
- Reduced need to download and install an app
- Reduce time to market
- Control over your content and more importantly over your financials
- Handsets that allow applications to access accelerometers and GPS, Camera, SMS and other phone features.
Youtube and Google Voice are now HTLM5 destinations
Here are some interesting links on the topic.
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/07/17/google-says-mobile-web-apps-will-win/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/01/html5-is-great-for-mobile.php
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/01/steve_jobs_on_google/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/20/youtube-html5/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/02/02/adobe-cto-kevin-lynch-defends-flash/
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/02/open_access_to_content_and_app.html
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