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Mozilla unveiled a plan last week to build a better mobile platform, attempting to leverage its expertise in Web browsers to compete with Android\u2019s and iOS\u2019 giant 77% market share. The program, dubbed \u201cBoot to Gecko\u201d and announced at the big Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, promises developers a new way to deploy applications to mobile using their existing Web-development skills. In essence, Mozilla is looking to make mobile app development more accessible to existing Web developers. Similarly, Yahoo announced its Web-standards based application platform called \u201cYahoo Cocktails.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both organizations are building mobile application development and deployment platforms based on recent advancements in HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS \u2013 technologies that development teams and CIOs can use without either Mozilla\u2019s or Yahoo\u2019s input. While the hype around these platforms may sound compelling, both platforms have a very long way to go to solve real-world mobile application challenges. For example: How do we build a mobile app that integrates with our ERP, creates a good customer impression, is available on multiple devices, does not paint us into a technological corner, and does not break the bank?<\/p>\n
The truth is, the decisions technology leaders have to make now are much more dynamic than they were just five years ago. \u00a0Back then, we were all discussing the impending convergence of platforms. Our difficult decisions were about what browser version to support or whether we should build our web applications using Flash.<\/p>\n
Today, we have not realized the promise of convergence and are actually witnessing the opposite. The reality is a divergence of platforms and devices, along with the giants of the tech industry clamoring for us to use their development tools and deployment platforms.<\/p>\n
The largest issue with creating mobile applications is that the ecosystem these applications have to live within is not simple, but rather very complex. There are no good choices for enterprises needing to build across devices. Ironically, the world was a simpler place for developers when Microsoft owned 98% of the market. \u00a0There are many variables in choosing an application framework, including:<\/p>\n
The potential of Yahoo\u2019s and Mozilla\u2019s efforts are exciting\u2013 as well as those of Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and the open source communities. \u00a0But there is still a long way to go before we that promise turns into actual working enterprise software. For now, at least, we are all stuck with incomplete \u201dnew\u201d technologies like HTML5 or developing in yesterday\u2019s HTML, or building multiple versions of the same app in different technologies. \u00a0Perhaps one day, as an industry, we\u2019ll finally fulfill that ideal of platform convergence while being able to respond to consumer divergence.<\/p>\n
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Mozilla unveiled a plan last week to build a better mobile platform, attempting to leverage its expertise in Web browsers to compete with Android\u2019s and iOS\u2019 giant 77% market share. The program, dubbed \u201cBoot to Gecko\u201d and announced at the big Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, promises developers a new way to deploy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17,8,46],"yoast_head":"\n