{"id":791,"date":"2014-06-09T07:44:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T14:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=791"},"modified":"2014-06-06T22:45:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T05:45:02","slug":"integration-fights-bloat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/09\/integration-fights-bloat\/","title":{"rendered":"Integration fights bloat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thus I\u2019m delighted that in iOS 8 Apple is adding the ability for apps to provide one another services. The news reminded me to re-read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2011\/06\/what-im-hoping-for-most-in-ios-5.html\">what I wrote three years ago<\/a>\u00a0when requesting just this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Poor integration leads to bloated apps<\/strong>: if jumping among apps\/modules is slow, customers gravitate towards all-in-one tools that offer more overall efficiency, even if the individual pieces are lacking. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Remember the promise of OpenDoc? Despite all its well documented faults, I still love the idea of assembling a dream team of little parts, each the best in its class for doing what I need. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did Photoshop 1.0 succeed?<\/strong> It offered excellent (and focused) core functionality, plus a simple extensibility system that enabled efficient flexibility (running a filter brought no need to save, navigate, re-open, etc.). The core app could remain relatively simple while aftermarket tuners tailored it to specific customer needs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With this support coming to iOS (and already on Android &amp; Windows), I think all our lives (as app users) and my life (as an app developer) are about to get a lot more efficient &amp; interesting. We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus I\u2019m delighted that in iOS 8 Apple is adding the ability for apps to provide one another services. The news reminded me to re-read\u00a0what I wrote three years ago\u00a0when requesting just this: Poor integration leads to bloated apps: if jumping among apps\/modules is slow, customers gravitate towards all-in-one tools that offer more overall efficiency, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}