Mobile Platforms and Technical Debt

Another solid piece by Benedict Evans (he’s been on fire recently):

But the underlying philosophies remain very different - for Apple the device is smart and the cloud is dumb storage, while for Google the cloud is smart and the device is dumb glass. Those assumptions and trade-offs remain very strongly entrenched. Meanwhile, the next phases of smartphones (messaging apps as platforms and watches as a dominant interface?) will test all the assumptions again.

★ Thursday, 15 January 2015