Mobile First, PC Second

Mac Slocum
November 17, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2) | Listen

Over on Radar, Tim O'Reilly says the mobile tipping point is upon us:

I think about the web as experienced on a PC, and then about mobile as an add on. The tipping point has come; that notion has to flip: if we're trying to get ahead of the curve, we need to think first about the phone, and then think about the PC browser experience as the add-on.

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bowerbird said:
November 17, 2008 8:00 PM

i'm sure tim appreciates the "link love" --
as he described it in his adjacent post --
coming from one of his employees...

go go google juice...

-bowerbird

Hadrien said:
November 18, 2008 11:00 AM

The most important part is to think of the web as web-services first. Once that you have a nice RESTful architecture, and that you can easily output data in multiple formats, you can start building how you display & interact with these services.

Aside from dedicated mobile applications and traditional websites, there's also more and more RIA applications. The 3 of them can interface with the same web-services if you built the right architecture from scratch.

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