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1. Why Go Native? > The Release Cycle
The Release Cycle
Paul Graham, one of my favorite dispensers of wisdom, argues that the arrival of web-based software has changed not just the user experience, but the developer experience as well:
One of the most important changes in this new world is the way you do releases. In the desktop software business, doing a release is a huge trauma, in which the whole company sweats and strains to push out a single, giant piece of code. Obvious comparisons suggest themselves, both to the process and the resulting product.
—From “The Other Road Ahead” by Paul Graham
He is exactly right. Working in the cloud, you rarely make a software release in the old sense of the word. Despite the benefits, I must admit I actually somewhat miss the “big push” where, usually with a great deal of trepidation, you roll out a new, improved version of a piece of software. However, one problem with writing native applications is that we’ve made a return to the release cycle.
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