Sell an HTML5 app instead of an iPhone app

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8 pointsbluesmoon4 comments

This educating the client business is starting to really bug me. If the client wants an iPhone app, it's not your place to start preaching your own personal ideals.

This part especially reminds me why I don't read quirksmode anymore:

"Of course it’ll also be less advanced in eye candy, but that’s something we should conveniently neglect to mention if it’s in our client’s interest."

If you're not trying to guide the client to the best solution for them, you're doing them a disservice. Most clients don't know what's best for them, that's why they're hiring you, for your expertise.

webOS is basically in this camp and they are not doing too well even though from the user's perspective the palm pre is much more programmable than the iphone or any android phone.

The potential failure of Palm doesn't automatically make every single decision they made wrong, nor does the success of the iPhone make every decision that Apple made correct.

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