Editing Talk:1367: Installing

explainxkcd has it pretty easy with this one since the comic explains a lot of itself.  Maybe explain what a smartphone is and how apps work?  [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.218|108.162.237.218]] 05:28, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

For some reason, this reminded me of the old Snaptu app. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snaptu) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.225.147|108.162.225.147]] 07:02, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Maybe it should be mentioned that sometimes you DON'T want to auto-install every application and give it access to all your phone resources. Because, you know, malware. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 09:47, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

I wonder why he chose <code>cookies</code> over <code>localStorage</code>... seems like <code>localStorage</code> does a better job of storing configs. {{User:Grep/signature|12:06, 12 May 2014}}

: <code>document.cookies</code> was invented before <code>localStorage</code>. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.4|108.162.246.4]] 22:19, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Firefox OS can technically do this, and technically does this. {{User:Grep/signature|12:07, 12 May 2014}}

Web pages and native apps still has a few essential differences that prevent us to interchange them practically, at least for now. The latter can be compiled and optimized into binaries that executes performantly on the specific device/platform. Current web standards don't make pages/sites/apps this way, the web browser needs to load the text codes then interpret and run them on the fly, which is much slower. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.79|199.27.128.79]] 08:33, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

:Native apps on PCs? Sure. But on phones? Apps on phones rarely contains any native code and in fact often ARE written in web-compatible languages. I mean in java or javascript. Also, in many situations, combination of extremely optimized Java virtual machine and poorly optimized native code results in interpreted code running FASTER that compiled one. Not speaking about fact that not many applications NEEDS to run so fast - they spend most time waiting for disk, net, user input or screen refresh anyway. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 10:22, 16 May 2014 (UTC)


The phrase "[...] a phone that has every app "installed" [...]" from Cueball's dialogue seems to conflict with the explanation. I understood it as the phone would have all the apps installed, but with only the "header" data. In the Android context, I suppose that would be the AndroidManifest.xml. In the Windows context, I suppose that would be the registry entries. [[Special:Contributions/188.114.99.189|188.114.99.189]] 00:30, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

== progressive web apps ==

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