Mobile is Not Different

As is the habit of our industry, the cycle of hype around the term "Mobile" has drained it of all useful meaning.
So what does it mean to talk about Mobile? It's software development from the perspective of the client, for one thing. It's also a newfound ubiquity for computing, as more of us become more connected to and dependent on software. Fundamentally, mobile apps are web apps, with the same needs for a reliable, scalable infrastructure--now more important than ever. This talk will look the current state of mobile development as a way to anticipate the future of web technologies and our relationship to them, both as engineers and users ourselves.

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2. mobile
3. most philosophical disagreements boil down to a confusion of terminology
4. see the bigger picture
5. Ideas Conflated With Mobile 3
6. • Cloud • Ubiquity • Touch
7. Cloud
8. ‘
9. (Internet)
12. mobile apps are cloud apps
13. a reliable, scalable, secure platform that allows you to iterate quickly and work efficiently.
14. API
15. API
16. API
17. ‘
18. Ubiquity
19. Khazzoom–Brookes Postulate a.k.a Jevons paradox
20. the more efficient it becomes to consume a commodity, the higher the rate of consumption
23. • 1990’s – Internet is virtual • 2000’s – Internet is reality • 2010’s – Internet is everywhere • 2020’s – Internet is everything
24. people looking at their phones will be the bell-bottoms of this decade
25. ...same goes for camera phone selfies
26. IPV6 51, 557, 934, 381, 960, 373, 252, 026, 455, 671 IP Addresses / person
27. “Internet of Things”
29. Touch
30. • Levers – Force is Multiplied • Buttons – Force is Displaced • Screens – Force is Abstracted A Very Short History of Interaction
33. No Cursor
34. No Hover
35. 44pt²
37. Button
38. Where are we going?
39. Commanding Heights of App Economy as Commodities
40. • Data Synchronization • In-App Purchase • Push Notifications • Passbook • Newsstand
41. Document versus Stream Paradigms
42. ‘
43. ‘
44. Hardware-Driven Revolution
46. Apple Giveth • GPS – Location-Based Social Networks • Gyroscope – Motion-Based Games • Font-Facing Camera – Photo Apps Galore • Bluetooth 4.0 – Passive, Activated Devices
47. Near Field Communication Unmitigated Local Interaction
48. Temperature Sensor Unmitigated Disaster
49. Web vs. Native
51. • If your value is content, make a responsive website • If your value is interaction, make a native app
53. • It’s not Web vs. Native • A dichotomy is not necessary • Software trends are chaotic byproducts of profound tensions
54. • Mobile is Connected • Mobile is Everywhere • Mobile is New Interactions
55. mobile is not different