Google recently announced the launch of Android Instant Apps, a new technology which allows just the bare minumum of an App to be downloaded from links, bypassing the Play Store. This sounds cool enough on its own, but the implications of this reach far deeper than at first appears, and could end up changing the entire internet.
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Eyebrows were raised in the smartphone business today when, following their unveiling of the Windows 7 Phone platform at MWC2010 recently, Microsoft launched an Android app. "Tag" is a barcode reading app which they also launched on the iPhone, J2ME, Blackberry and Symbian S60 handsets. On the face of it this is hardly revolutionary, but the trend to have a single app for all popular platforms may be what's behind this move. The barcodes Tag can recognise though are different - they are color, and so hold much more data than the usual black and white (even 2D) ones.
