Comments on: The Death of Offline Web Apps? http://www.appcelerant.com/the-death-of-offline-web-apps.html Appcelerator blog focused on helping you build your next killer mobile, desktop and web based applications Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:30:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Andrew Zuercher http://www.appcelerant.com/the-death-of-offline-web-apps.html/comment-page-1#comment-6436 Andrew Zuercher Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:03:31 +0000 http://www.appcelerant.com/?p=69#comment-6436 Quin, When I was in South Africa, TSA was creating a metro-ethernet infrastructure which was pretty impressive. Which was pretty cool, but at the same time, since it was a virtual monopoly I was restricted to a very slow connection in the hotel until it became available. So on one hand you may see new technology being rolled out, but until it is available the options were slow and expensive. That is just one measured point, but reality nonetheless. Quin,
When I was in South Africa, TSA was creating a metro-ethernet infrastructure which was pretty impressive. Which was pretty cool, but at the same time, since it was a virtual monopoly I was restricted to a very slow connection in the hotel until it became available. So on one hand you may see new technology being rolled out, but until it is available the options were slow and expensive. That is just one measured point, but reality nonetheless.

]]> By: Matthew Quinlan http://www.appcelerant.com/the-death-of-offline-web-apps.html/comment-page-1#comment-6433 Matthew Quinlan Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:50:40 +0000 http://www.appcelerant.com/?p=69#comment-6433 I was thinking about that too... but then I realized that mobile networks are often more advanced outside of the states than inside it. Primarily due to the cost of running communications lines, most developing countries' last-mile communications infrastructure is all wireless. It will be interesting to see the rate of proliferation of wireless internet globally over the next 10 years... especially since wireless internet appears to be destined to ride on top of our mobile phone networks. I was thinking about that too… but then I realized that mobile networks are often more advanced outside of the states than inside it. Primarily due to the cost of running communications lines, most developing countries’ last-mile communications infrastructure is all wireless.

It will be interesting to see the rate of proliferation of wireless internet globally over the next 10 years… especially since wireless internet appears to be destined to ride on top of our mobile phone networks.

]]> By: Johan Vosloo http://www.appcelerant.com/the-death-of-offline-web-apps.html/comment-page-1#comment-6428 Johan Vosloo Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:31:20 +0000 http://www.appcelerant.com/?p=69#comment-6428 Hmmmmmm - yes, that may be true if you're living in the States. But there is a whole big world outside of 1st world borders where it will still take years (decades even?) for connectivity to become omnipresent. In the meantime, there still remains a need for offline enabled webapps/online enabled desktop apps. Hmmmmmm – yes, that may be true if you’re living in the States. But there is a whole big world outside of 1st world borders where it will still take years (decades even?) for connectivity to become omnipresent. In the meantime, there still remains a need for offline enabled webapps/online enabled desktop apps.

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