Forex Tianyan APP News: When I first entered this industry, I remembered Chris Dixon saying that: Blockchain should be a "native" application, not an Internet application.
I’ve heard a similar view more than once before. When the Apple Watch was first launched, many people had high hopes for smartwatches. They were the next generation computing devices after mobile phones. People didn’t know what kind of apps should be developed on the watch. It is directly transplanted from the mobile phone, which is called the native application of the watch.
Similarly, when VR is hot, people don't know what kind of games should be developed on the headset, only know that it cannot be directly ported from the host game, which is called the native application of VR.
Of course, in the end, both of these areas were a bit depressed. Apple Watch failed to become a cross-age product. Instead, the most successful case of smart watches is the small genius children's watch. VR has gradually lost its sound, and only a small group of very hardcore players have fun.
But what exactly is a native application? There is still no answer to this question. I only know what is not a native application-it is definitely not a brainless transplant of something that was in the past.
Blockchain is still in its early stages, and it is difficult to see the future. So looking back at this highly mature time point of the Internet, what native Internet applications did the early Internet produce?
The browser seems to be a good example. Before the Internet, there was no such thing. The job of the browser is to parse the URL and display the website, which did not exist before the Internet. So we can probably say that the browser is a native application of the Internet.
If we expand the scope from the Internet to the entire computer field, based on this standard, all tools and infrastructure made by early computer developers, including GNU tools, Linux operating systems, etc., are the first batch of native applications .
Because there are no real users in the early stage, the users are the developers themselves. The people who make things and use things are completely overlapped. They produce and sell themselves in small circles. If they are separated from this circle, it is difficult for these applications to generate value.
Blockchain is also at this stage now. Most applications (whether it is DeFi, DAO, or NFT) are in a state that outsiders simply don’t understand and don’t want to understand. Many developers try to break this barrier and allow the blockchain to connect to mainstream users of the Internet-but it is not understood by mainstream users. Perhaps it is the normal state of early native applications.
The reason is also very simple. Judging from previous experience, the objective law of technological development is always "people in the circle think too fast, and people outside the circle think too slowly." So calmly consider that if you want to engage in this industry for a long time, the road ahead is much longer than we currently expect or imagine.
Thinking of this, I am also relieved of the previous concepts of "large-scale application", "mainstream user" and "native Dapp". Stop thinking about what is the most suitable native application for blockchain. Get into this industry and write more on github that are helpful to your own development of blockchain and happen to be the tools and projects that other developers need. Serious business.
Many newly launched public chains are using various methods such as hackathons, community funds, and grants to attract developers to develop applications on their own chains. But don't forget that infrastructure will be the first and most important native application of any public chain.
—— Retric, 2020.11.16
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