While the success of the Apple iPhone’s App Store has been undeniable, the future of mobile applications is online. With the integration of HTML5 mobile browsers, we now have caching options and geo-locational services (GPS) built right within the HTML code. Previously, these types of features were only available to native phone applications built in languages like Cocoa Touch for the iPhone OS.
Mobile Web App vs. Mobile Application
The truth is, with cell-phone carrier’s providing 3G, 4G, and soon 5G wireless data transfer, users won’t see the difference in the performance, look, and feel of a mobile web application versus a native phone application. Why is this good?
- When you make an iPhone App, for example, that application will only work on an Apple iPhone, whereas a mobile web application will work on any phone with an internet browser with little configuration needed.
- Creating mobile web applications will drastically increase your audience and potential audiences. While the iPhone is popular, it still only accounts for a relatively small portion of cell phones in the United States.
- Mobile Web Apps can be created using web-based code like PHP, JavaScript, and CSS whereas the iPhone OS uses Cocoa and Cocoa Touch – a C# based language designed by Apple. Using these web-based languages also makes integrating with your website or web application much easier.
Where We Fit In
Wythagy can handle all of your mobile web application needs. Whether you are looking for a mobile-ready version of your website, a mobile tool or application, or anything else you can imagine, we can design, build, test, and launch your mobile app or website across a variety of major cell phones and carriers. We build and test for iPhone’s, BlackBerry’s, Palm’s, and more.
Apple iPad
Are you looking to design a web application or website for the Apple iPad? We do that too – take a look at our other web, design, and marketing services!