Mobile Apps Vs Browser Apps

   Growing up in my house we really didn't have internet at home and the computer was a rarely used thing. That isn't to say we were one of those families that reads books all the time, we spent our fair share of time on the TV. But it wasn't until I got to college that I started consistently using a computer with applications for various different purposes. I did have a phone before a lot of my peers but the smartphone didn't happen for me until I was in my early 20's and got to experience a hold new world of technology that had already begun developing around me years earlier.


   From that perspective I give my thoughts on the differences between a desktop and browser applications verses a mobile phone applications. I transitioned straight into the mobile phone apps without even thinking about it. I would download the app, play around with it and would decide whether or not to keep it after roughly one day. The desktop application were very different. It would take strong coercion and force just to get me to download an application and even then I would only use it when absolutely necessary. So you could say that I lean more toward generally liking mobile apps more.

   What is interesting to me after seeing my own personal experience with the transition from nothing to applications was that a very similar occurrence took place but on a much larger scale. According to PCWORLD.com when Apple launched the app store everyone freaked out, got their apps and it happened so fast that we can't even remember living in a world without mobile apps. Slowly but sure the mac store got going and windows is still getting to their app store. Wow. It seems like a total parallel. I jumped on the apps bandwagon and then eventually joined the browser app scene and the world followed that same pattern. I guess I should really say that I followed the world's pattern.

   It would seem that mobile apps are then superior and/or cooler than our desktop friends. However, in an article by Sondra Hart while she is making a list of keep differences between the two options she does make several great points. One point she makes is that, obviously, mobile apps are on smaller screens. Now I don't to use that every single phone screen is smaller than any given laptop screen but for the sake of the argument we can all acknowledge that the majority of the time we see a much smaller application option for our mobile buddies. Another important note, which also could vary between computer types and phone types is the speed of the applications. When using a computer you will generally have a faster processor and it makes the actual transitions much smoother and gives you more of the experience you are hoping for during your surfing of the online web.

   One thing I can definitely attribute to desktop and browser apps is that my typing has great improved since I've started using them because if this were 10 years ago I would still be part way through the first paragraph I bet!