FROM THE ARCHIVES OF PRAGPUB MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER, 2019
The Smartphone Revolution: Making Everything Accessible
by Carmine Zaccagnino
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Smartphones became ubiquitous because people found them intuitive. And that presents a challenge to the multiplatform smartphone developer.
What really made the smartphone revolution happen wasn’t big screens or full web browsing, it was apps. The iPhone (just like the Android phones) did away with the previous operating systems (Symbian, mostly) that were designed for regular cellphones and that had very few apps available for general consumers.
Smartphones took off because they are so useful to so many people, and that’s because there are so many applications available. Apps that you can interact with in an intuitive way while on the go. The actions that would have required a PC (checking whether a…
