All Google Glass apps to be web based: tidbit hiding in NY Times Bits Blog

Google Glass image from NT Times Bits blog

Google Emulates Apple in Restricting Apps for Glass - NYTimes.com:

This story from the Times' tech blog, is about restrictions on developers, but the real news for me was this:

"The apps, which will be called Glassware, will be cloud-based, like Web apps, as opposed to living on the device like cellphone apps. "

So, it appears that Google is going with the stateless future for Glass, a good sign, and an indication of their commitment to an ecosystem of web-delivered applications.


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With pure HTML5 app, Amazon deftly sidesteps Apple content and app control for iOS

In jab at iTunes, Amazon releases iOS-optimized MP3 store - CSMonitor.com:

Image: Christian Science Monitor

It's not an Apple app store app, it's an HTML5 optimized web app, anyone on an iOS device can use it whether Apple likes it or not.

More evidence that stateless delivery of applications and content changes the rules--and the business cases--for a lot of companies.

And it reminds me of Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" to the emperor: "The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers!"

I think it's Very Interesting that the last two pieces of important news about digital content (this, and the debut of the Auto-Rip service to make physical CDs purchased now or in the past digitally available) have come from Amazon.com.

Wired Magazine interviews Marc Andreesen

The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen | Epicenter | Wired.com:

The stateless future means that applications and data live on the web, and run on almost any device.

Mosaic creator, Netscape founder, and venture capitalist Marc Andreesen doesn't say that in those specific words, but in this excellent cover story from the new issue of Wired Magazine, he comes close: "The application model of the future is the web application model. The apps will live on the web. Mobile apps on platforms like iOS and Android are a temporary step along the way toward the full mobile web."

Andreesen has been right about almost everything he's predicted; click through to Wired and learn why he thinks bandwidth is a critical enabler of the future, and his vision of business in a fully web-enabled world.

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Apps belong on the web

Scott Jenson image from netmagazine.com

Mobile Apps Must Die!

This article from .net magazine reiterates core ideas I advocate about stateless computing:

Applications and data belong on the web. 

Devices are for network connection, display, user interface, and consumption of web-based content.

Thanks to Devlin Dunsmore on Google+ for the alert about this article.