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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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+ | [[Cueball]] has a clever idea to skip the downloading and installing of applications on mobile phones and replace them with links to applications that would download the appropriate data and then run. | ||
− | + | This concept however is already implemented in web applications. Clicking a link will make the browser download the web page and execute the contained HTML and javascript code. | |
− | + | In the title text [[Cueball]]s idea for local application storage is also already contained in the HTTP protocol by {{w|HTTP_cookie|cookies}} and more recently the HTML 5 protocol added {{w|Web_storage|web storage}}. | |
− | The | + | Native phone applications and web applications are not completely interchangeable. The web browser that is needed to run web applications on a mobile phone doesn't allow access to several of the phones resources, like notifications and sensors. |
+ | Projects like [http://cordova.apache.org/ Apache Cordova] try to make these resources available to web applications, but they do this by creating a native application wrapper for the web application. | ||
− | + | ==Transcript== | |
+ | '''Installing''' | ||
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+ | Cueball: Installing things has gotten so fast and painless. | ||
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− | + | Why not skip it entirely, and make a phone that has every app "Installed" already and just downloads and runs them on the fly? | |
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− | + | I felt pretty clever until I realized I'd invented webpages. | |
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