If you ask many developers what a “user story” is, you will be told that it is a software requirement expressed using a prescribed formula: "As a category of person, I want to do a thing so that some goal is attained."
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Workers Of The (Digital) World
They say that software is eating the world. They also say, or rather they say that Jean-Jacques Rousseau said: "Quand le peuple n’aura plus rien à manger, il mangera le riche."
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Issue #44: Mobile
Welcome to the forty-fourth issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, dedicated to the subject of Mobile. In this edition, Adrian argues that using cross-platform UI frameworks is a bad business decision; Graham discusses the current duopoly in the smartphone market; and in the Library section, Adrian reviews the work of Erica Sadun.
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On The Duopoly Of Mobile
It is surprising how quickly the duopoly of iOS and Android, Apple and Google, became entrenched. At the 2007 iPhone launch event, Steve Jobs compared the touchscreen-centric iPhone UI with four other competitors: the Moto Q, BlackBerry, Palm Treo, and Nokia E62. The Moto Q ran on Windows Mobile, the last release of which was in 2010. BlackBerry had replatformed onto Android in 2015, joining the duopoly. Palm effectively stopped making anything (even at its new home in HP) in 2011, then popped up again in 2018 making Android devices. The holdout was Nokia, who partnered with Microsoft in 2011, sold to them in 2014, and (as Microsoft Mobile) closed…
