Commoditization is one aspect and that may be the case in some situations.
Having helped many organizations understand how to build JavaScript applications across a bunch of different platforms, from my experience what they are trying to do is improve their ability to iterate and remain responsive to user needs across all the devices users want to interact with.
As a user, I expect and prioritize applications and experiences that are available to me wherever I choose to use the service. Web stack tech is facilitating this.
Guillermo Rauch
- Story of Socket.io and Socket.io 1.0 announcement.
- Socket.io came out of wanting to implement operational transforms ala Etherpad.
- http://twitter.com/rauchg
Holoscene Party
- Stream || die() w/ Max Ogden (drums), Rick Waldron (bass), Paolo Fragomeni (guitar), Carter Thaxton (trumpet), Substack (vocals/code)
- DJ Joe McCann
- Pies + Big Lebowski
Training them can also be more involved than you think. Make sure you have the resources to have one or more people drop their productivity significantly while you bring the intern up to speed. Adding interns is a Mythical Man-Month equation++.
Having helped many organizations understand how to build JavaScript applications across a bunch of different platforms, from my experience what they are trying to do is improve their ability to iterate and remain responsive to user needs across all the devices users want to interact with.
As a user, I expect and prioritize applications and experiences that are available to me wherever I choose to use the service. Web stack tech is facilitating this.