Desktop apps are taking on mobile characteristics
January 10, 2012 —
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End users are interested in downloading applications to their desktops according to their needs, and they want to do so quickly and easily.
This is the belief of Tom Huntington, vice president of marketing at SweetLabs, which has created Pokki, an application platform and store for HTML5 applications for Windows. The goal is to help improve the end-user experience of downloading applications directly to the desktop.
“Ease of use for applications hasn’t been on the desktop, but consumers are very used to it,” Huntington said, noting that Pokki applications are similar to iPhone applications, but are used on the desktop and are HTML5 compatible.
Pokki applications offer a similar end-user experience to the Chrome application experience where a website or Web application is wrapped with a new UI and packaged for the desktop or browser, Huntington explained.
The Pokki desktop platform can be used to create Windows applications, with support for Mac to come in the future, if all goes according to the company’s plan. “Ultimately, [Pokki] will be a true app platform across multiple operating systems and platforms,” Huntington said.
Pokki, named after a Japanese sweet candy, is not the only company currently working on the desktop app experience. Appcelerator, creator of the Titanium IDE and development platform, believes the key to creating that mobile-like desktop app experience is to understand that desktop apps have to be different from mobile applications.
“These desktop apps are smaller in size and the method of distribution has been changed. Apps are becoming increasingly more cloud-connected,” Scott Schwarzhoff, vice president of marketing at Appcelerator, said.
He said Wunderlist, a desktop, mobile and Web-based application created using Appcelerator Titanium, is a perfect example of the changing marketplace. It is a different experience across all platforms, from mobile to desktop to Web, but it is similar in that all tasks are ported from one representation of the app to another, Schwarzhoff said. This is possible because the business logic stays the same while the UI changes from application to application.
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