Which one is more promising: web or mobile?

Answer 1

@Kirk Shafer not all embedded devices support a mobile platform like android/ios ecc... There is no standard right now and it will be difficoult to implement it due to hardware differences that are native in embedded projects. The IOT is all about networking and the devices you mentioned use socket networking, standard server/client http requests sometimes using rest api.
The IOT is viewed for the future as a way for technology to manage itself through AI.
As for now and the near future, the only common way to interface all these different networked devices is web based (Many of the changes introduced with HTML 5 focus on this aspect: web sockets,audio,video....). At least until a new standard for embedded devices will revolutionize the IOT, web is the answer also due the heavy limitations of developing on mobile platforms.
There will be for sure, some improvement in the mobile world, but until that time web is the easiest, most standardized, and cross platform way to go.
The only standards for embedded devices at the moment are Linux/Android/IOS but they mostly fight against each other.

Answer 2

(edited) Voting for mobile, because IoT (and Raspberry Pi + Arduino in the hands of the next generation of makers). Chrome has added bluetooth 'physical places' -- yes, browser, but you have to have a mobile to experience those.

It is no accident that IPv6 is so large; there's more business on the Internet than on the web. This includes: RFID, kids-are-home sensors, follow-me settings...I even saw a FedEx guy swipe s mobile sensor to open his truck's door today--and cyberdefense is a big thing now...there's lots of room here to learn new things about device/etc. security...even if that lesson is: 'obscurity doesn't​ work'...again.

Answer 3

I think that mobile is becoming everyday more important than web.

Answer 4

Guys, you can't give a "both" answer to a "which is more" question. It doesn't make sense.
One has to be more promising than the other, even if slightly. I'm also not asking about relevance, since both are obviously relevant.

Answer 5

programming web apps is important, cause lot of people prefer to use it. Despite the incredible grow of mobile apps downloaded

Answer 6

Both are relevant.

Answer 7

web at the moment, is the only "cross platform" solution.
Considering how coss platform benefit Java in the past, the fact that most of the apps require servers for db and networking anyway, I guess web is more promising.