Name: 私のJSフォンはどうなったの？ by Garann Means｜JSConf EU 2019 (What happened to my JS phone? by Garann Means | JSConf EU 2019)
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My name's Garann, and I would like to talk today what happened to our JavaScript phones?

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I want to start off with a hypothesis which is that nobody in this room actually has a

About five to six years ago, I feel like I could have asked you all this kind of conference

if you had some kind of experimental advice running Firefox OS, Ubuntu on your person

right now, and there would be a fair amount of hands in the air given the demographic

Today, I doubt there are any of those devices here in the room, unless you brought them

So I think it's fair to say that hacker phones as a concept kind of disappeared.

We just gave up, and we went back to our iPhones and our Androids.

We got better cameras, faster modems, and greater stability.

These phones seemed to get more and more expensive.

I can't even fathom how I would have justified paying nearly a grand for my first Nokia,

but they also become more impressive and able to replace our real computers.

So you could say that they cost more, because they help us accomplish for.

They go far beyond what we could have done with hacker phones.

Except they don't work like real computers.

We're locked into somebody else's vision of this sort of like Ikea office computer that

looks pretty convincing, but it's actually quite limited.

If you don't like the vision that you're offered, you have at maximum one alternative option.

So maybe that's why I'm up here today wondering what happened to JavaScript phones which would

blow up this field and put the future of these computers back into the hands of your average

JavaScript developer, the way we grabbed the web back from IE5 and Flash.

Interestingly, what happened involves a bit of all the things I just mentioned.

The stunning cameras, the connection speeds, the stability of the firmware.

And it might seem superficially like this is triumph of the free market where the products

that won do so because they were simply better products.

It's actually more of a triumph of old boys' network, monopolies, the obtuseness of infrastructure,

and fashion having lots and lots of capital to throw at something so that nobody else

It's not a story of the natural even Lukes of products to become better, it's the story

Let's go back five or six years when some of us thought it might play out differently.

There are a few things relevant to examine from that time that should have culminated

in a great JavaScript phone - the interest in Cordova and the tools, the exponential

adoption of Node, and Node bots being like artisan coffee brewing, or bread-making or

knitting, whatever you're into these days, of the day.

People searching for ways of web skills on their phones, putting Node where they could

think of and everybody seemed to have a soldiering iron.

If that is not a recipe for a JavaScript phone, I don't know what is.

Some of your babies, you will remember that time, so let's talk about the details.

First, the state of mobile development was really unresolved.

People were already developing native apps, and they were making quite decent money off

them because there wasn't as much competition.

So, naturally, developers who didn't work in the native languages of the platforms wanted

a piece of that too or their employers or client did, and from there, we got things

Phone gap was bought by Adobe and became Cordova, a tool to allow JavaScript developers to write

a JavaScript application and compile it to native code.

There was a lot of focus on making normal hosted web apps and websites mobile-friendly.

There are tool kits such as emulators, and intensive theorising about responsive design

that started appearing out of nowhere to meet the needs of smartphones.

You could compare it to the current consensus we should be producing accessibility websites,

but in this case, we actually went and did something about it.

At this point, testing cross-browser had been a significant and limiting piece of work recently.

Adding mobile browsers generated mobile apps to the list of things to check felt pretty

natural, and everybody wanted to be on the everybody's phone and we all just did it.

On the back-end, you have Node, which at this point is still fairly new, or at least is

It's gone through a few years of people insisting it's merely a novelty, and people insisting

it will never have the robustness of Engine X, or Ruby, or the corporate assured reliability

Express has existed a few minutes after Node was released so people have been using Node

Even the Node community itself has been trying to distance Node from being a web server.

I always read it as an unfortunate giving into pressure from hacker news-type people

There is nothing more serious than hardware.

At this time, you can assume that you will see people playing with circuit boards with

lights on them, and somebody's nocopter will be sitting on the ground, gathering speculation

about what actually needs to be fixed, and how sweet it's going to be when it actually

The hardware is just marketing being useful things to do with JavaScript, not necessarily

Scripting languages are lovely to work with if introducing the additional layer of abstraction

JavaScript has been getting faster, more powerful for years at this point, so that easier adoption

makes it a very attractive interface to code against.

There's one more big things that is happening at this point in time, which is that there

is a JavaScript phone, and at a conference like this, a bunch of people would have had

We talked a little bit about - we will talk about Firefox OS in a second.

You may or may not have noticed there's an elephant in this room.

Maybe it's more clear when it seemed like we could have a JavaScript phone, but what

If you're thinking that was a really good idea, why didn't that happen?

Personally, I wondered if today it's too late?

I don't know if people still feel this way, or if the ship has sailed?

Several years ago, though, it was too early to wonder that.

Another advantage for Apple and Google sharing the smartphone monopoly is they have had the

privilege of training us all to use their products.

If you think back, though, people used to have tons of complaints about the phone interfaces.