Comments on: Why the WAC Is Whack http://gigaom.com/2010/02/15/why-the-wac-is-whack/ Thu, 23 May 2013 03:07:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The WAC Dream Lives on Smart’s Netphone: Tech News and Analysis « http://gigaom.com/2010/02/15/why-the-wac-is-whack/#comment-587925 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:10:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=99325#comment-587925 [...] started out as a far-fetched dream — to create a unified app platform that can run on any device, operating system and carrier — is finally coming to life, though its long-term prospects are [...]

]]> By: Do We Need a Global App Store for Feature Phones?: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2010/02/15/why-the-wac-is-whack/#comment-300536 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:36:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=99325#comment-300536 [...] Applications Community was first announced earlier this year at the Mobile World Congress event. We covered the news of this largely carrier-based organization back then, and after browsing a PDF of the specification today, I’m inclined to agree with my colleague [...]

]]> By: Oh God! Yet Another Lame Carrier-Backed Mobile OS: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2010/02/15/why-the-wac-is-whack/#comment-276963 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:21:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=99325#comment-276963 [...] LiMo Foundation. Yeah, even I thought it had chances of being a success, but man, was I wrong. The chances of the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), another industry-wide effort, succeeding range from zero to oh, I don’t know… [...]

]]> By: McGuire’s Law » Blog Archive » Observations: Applications - February 17, 2010 http://gigaom.com/2010/02/15/why-the-wac-is-whack/#comment-240780 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:18:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=99325#comment-240780 [...] Why the WAC Is Whack [...]

]]> By: interfaSys http://gigaom.com/2010/02/15/why-the-wac-is-whack/#comment-240779 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:20:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=99325#comment-240779 Let’s not forget that we will soon be able to write Flash apps that will work on all platforms…
I for one welcome the effort of carriers to help developers bring out apps for many different platforms. Should make it much easier.

]]> By: Mark http://gigaom.com/2010/02/15/why-the-wac-is-whack/#comment-240778 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:23:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=99325#comment-240778 There’s also this thing called HTML…

]]> By: steve http://gigaom.com/2010/02/15/why-the-wac-is-whack/#comment-240777 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:17:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=99325#comment-240777 Agree in tone with the article and comments (about write once run anywhere). However there are secondary issues here – the carriers also want to make use of network intelligence to “move up the stack” from being dumb pipe providers. I wrote a bunch here on how they will attempt this – important stuff http://stevecheney.posterous.com/twenty-four-companies-unite-to-kill-apple-huh

]]> By: gp http://gigaom.com/2010/02/15/why-the-wac-is-whack/#comment-240776 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:34:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=99325#comment-240776 well there is something called j2me (java mobile edition)…which is there since last 5 years ….looks like move to pressure apple

]]> By: Martin Ingram http://gigaom.com/2010/02/15/why-the-wac-is-whack/#comment-240775 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:54:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=99325#comment-240775 The creation of a lowest common denominator standard to allow apps to run on all platforms will not work: Once all the OS variations plus all the hardware variations are taken into account application usability will be appalling.

If we are going to get to a world where mobile applications run across a broad mix of hardware and software platforms then we will need a hypervisor for mobiles to hide all the variability from the applications. So far there has been much talk of mobile hypervisors but little action.

One thing the App Store has proven is the demand for mobile applications and that a de-facto standard (iPhone) is better than nothing. That leaves the rest of the industry with a decision: Create real cross platform compatibility or accept that mobile apps will be the sole preserve of a small number of de-facto standards – Apple plus maybe RIM/BlackBerry for business apps.

Martin Ingram (AppSense)

]]> By: Seth http://gigaom.com/2010/02/15/why-the-wac-is-whack/#comment-240774 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:28:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=99325#comment-240774 Haven’t heard this story before? Didn’t NeXT try it, and PowerPC, and OpenDoc, and… As long as size-obsessed, hyper-competitive men continue to run companies purely on the basis of short-term I’ll-be-gone/You’ll-be-gone self-interest rather than long-term mutual-interest, such advances are unlikely to succeed.

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