-1 - there is literally no reason that we should boycott ADC II - losing is not a bad thing - it is common in any contest - it helps you gain more insight for your next winning submissions.
@Biosopher - very true iPhone dev is very much locked down - not sure any third party innovative apps will ever come from such a locked down environment and I really doubt that the iFund will really be awarded to anyone for being innovative. Say if you develop a VoIP app - Apple will simply turn it down for being against the interest of its telecomm partners, say if you write a better media player - Apple will think you as a competitor for their very own app and will again turn you down. And with no threading, background processing - I am not sure how a better app to exploit iPhone would ever be born. So only calculators, simple games are going to end up - or take the web apps route for iPhone than the SDK route. On May 19, 12:03 am, Biosopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -2 I just spoke with a couple colleagues at Apple and was amazed at > how locked down the iPhone system is. I had already downloaded the > iPhone SDK to familiarize myself with the differences between > Android's & the iPhone's SDK, so I knew many of the differences. But > I was surprised at how much I didn't know. > > If everyone here thinks Google is so bad, then sign up for Apple's dev > center and look into recreating your Android app on the iPhone. At > this point, none of the top 50 Challenge winners could port their apps > to the iPhone. > > So if your non-winning-but-should've-won app is even more advanced or > better or novel or indispensable, then you can guarantee it will not > be runnable on the iPhone. > > OK...maybe Google has problems but let's get beyond that for a moment > and think about what Google is doing right. They have provided us the > opportunity to create something we can't do anywhere else. AND THAT > is something Google has consistently provided to the world time & time > again. > > Apple's "locked down" media player-only-focused approach for the > iPhone is a major limitation, and Android is making that increasingly > apparent. > > SO please...can we all stop fighting amongst ourselves and move > forward? > > Otherwise can all these Google haters get off this forum and move to > Apple's website forum for awhile? Spend a couple days there and > you'll be back here soon ready to participate in Round 2. > > Cheers, > Anthony --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to android-challenge@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
