less platforms

Tags: Business
September 19, 2008 by Barbara

I was just reading C. Enrique Ortiz’s discussion on different types of mobile applications, when my grammar-Nazi flag went up:

It is clear that less platforms and less fragmentation is a good thing.

I thought, grammatically that should be fewer platforms and less fragmentation. After all, you can count platforms.

Then I realized that actually “less platforms” is right, and perhaps the real problem. You can’t count platforms. Linux is not one platform, but many. We’re currently designing four versions of most web sites. There’s Windows Mobile then there’s Windows Mobile. And then there’s Java ME, with its myriad rendering issues and JSR variations.

(Either way, I apply grammar-Nazi only to improving my own and my kids’ language. Everybody else is fine.)


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1 Comment »

  1. My thoughts, exactly.
    It is interesting that this got published the same time I was writing up my blog post: http://tapaskroy.blogspot.com/2008/09/mobile-development-platforms-survey.html
    I actually counted a dozen.

    Comment by Tapas — September 21, 2008 @ 5:24 am

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