Nexus 10 vs iPad4 vs Surface RT (battle of the tablets!)

[rocketpig]

davygee said:

rocketpig said:

Yep. My site is off-season right  now so the traffic is fluctuating (and therefore, the stats are somewhat unreliable) but during the peak season, mobile browsers (iOS/Android) were gaining over half a percentage point a month, sometimes a full percentage point. They went from ~15% in early 2012 to ~23% in the course of 5-6 months.

That's insane.

As a side note, I know a lot of application developers (figures, being that I'm a web developer myself). I know at least five groups of people who are working on mobile applications for either iOS, Android, or both.

I don't know a single person who is working on a Windows or Mac application. All the money is in mobile right now and people are flocking to it in huge numbers.

I understand where this is going, I too work as a Web Developer and we are beginning to push even our smaller sites to have mobile templated versions.  We are pretty small so aren't really in the App business as of yet, but it's pretty obvious that's where we are going.

Everything is moving.  More people are doing without a Desktop PC in the house now and are choosing a tablet seeing as they only really want to send emails and surf the web.  Also with how quickly the tech in mobile phones are moving, everyone is accessing the web on the move, which cuts down on the need to "hold off til I get home" mentality.

Home desktop systems are a dying breed.  Yes there will be the hardcore of users that need one, but it seems that everyone is going the way that I went at home.  Desktop -> Laptop -> Tablet.

Pretty much every site I work on now has some sort of mobile template/redirect to it. The good is that it's more work for me. the bad is that it's more work for me.

But the trends are there and they're obvious to everyone in the industry. If you don't know JS/HTML5, you're struggling to find work. If you do know those languages, work is plentiful.

And the rapid adoption of HTML5 has been entirely driven by mobile devices. Even IE9's support of HTML5 is lackluster at best, completely backwards and shitty at worst.