User Interface, Unification and then Disintegration. So Browser to Apps, WHY -- it’s from need to want journey i.e. from generic to specialized to personalize User Interfaces (UI).
As technology evolves, it allows more customization and sophistication. Today we are standing at another crossroads where ease of use is taking front seat and standards are taking a hit, thus today we create more than one UI for our application - namely Web UI, IPhone UI, Android UI, Windows UI....
Hang on; the verdict is not out still. HTML is making a mega comeback, watch out for HTML5. Platform independent UI is on unveil.
SOA thought process demands platform agnostic UI. But Business world thinks otherwise, till technology proves ROI. Eventually we have seen time and again technology supersedes, profit machines (corporate houses). Case in point: extensive use of SOA framework to integrate diverse systems with ease.
Effort turnaround time points towards Platform Independent UI.
