Today at the VidCon 2010 conference, we announced support for videos shot in 4K (a reference resolution of 4096 x 3072), meaning that now we support original video resolution from 360p all the way up to 4096p. To give some perspective on the size of 4K, the ideal screen size for a 4K video is 25 feet; IMAX movies are projected through two 2k resolution projectors.
First off, video cameras that shoot in 4K aren’t cheap, and projectors that show videos in 4K are typically the size of a small refrigerator.
Why not both? Native, Thin clients that can run on premise or over the internet, inside or outside a browser on any device?
and “SaaS” means…? What?
Software as a Service – simplistically, “doing stuff online”
@benkepes #apple? There’s only one mention of Apple in that article, and it’s a pair with #microsoft.
@freitasm True – but if you’re looking at a perfect example of native vs browser, the Google/Apple dichotomy is worth investigating…
@benkepes No. Google/Microsoft is worth investigating. Microsoft Office Web. Nothing on Apple for that.
@benkepes Odd article arguing for the sake of arguing and even then not doing it well.
@objektivs which article? The native/web app one? That’s one of Krish’s, but feel free to critique…
@benkepes The native vs web one. I’ll reply with some thoughts in non twitter land
@objektivs nice, always happy to have… erm what do they call it? Engagement, that’s it! 😉
I think you need to delve into some of the themes in this article more.
“Just look at the way native apps demand resources as they get upgraded to newer versions.” Isn’t the same true for browsers and web-hosted apps? As we push the capability of web-based apps we need more and more from the browser. At some point SaaS push the browser so much we have to upgrade the software, or the standards, or look at Flash, Silverlight etc.
“Compared to the kind of innovation we saw on the traditional software side, there is a much higher rate of innovation going on with browser based apps.” This isn’t a fair comparison. Apple’s (and there are others) own SaaS for delivering native apps to mobile devices is actually making it easy to distribute apps on a frequent basis. This approach was never really adopted back in the day. Things have moved on; the landscape has changed. Your use of past-tense limits the validity of your statement. And what about all the innovation we are seeing in apps and I’d say we can expect a lot more as more mobile platforms compete with one another.
You don’t really mention consumers and isn’t that important? Take Twitter as an example; SaaS with a perfectly good website that runs on mobile browsers. But look at all the apps out there and the diversity you can expect all from the same set of web services. It’s almost as though consumers want it…
This one made me laugh: “… the pure SaaS argument made by vendors like Google…” Is this same Google making Android, a rich set of libraries and tools for getting more of that SaaS into native apps? When players this big are on the native apps bandwagon you should be mentioning them for a more balanced, less biased article.
Browsers are themselves “native apps” — and if the user allows it, browser based apps can take advantage of most of the resources normally only available to desktop apps.
IMHO, maybe we should be talking about a possible convergence instead?
TJL
I am on the browser being the Operating System too. After all the OS wars we had where the innovation was divided amongst diehards in the MS camp versus Apple Camp vs Sun camp and the consequential wastage of productivity in cross-platform porting I think making browser the standard platform is the right way. With the browsers all but becoming standards driven, and advent of rich delivery technologies like Adobe Air and HTML 5 having bloated, proprietary desktops or OS native applications is totally self-serving (to the vendors off course).