very much locked down is not the rite way to descripe it. Ofcouse, apple will certainly do not want any type of VoIP application to be on their phone, but then there are ton of other type of application that you can alway exploring. And if you can come up with anything beside VoIP then you can stay here alright, small heads can't do anything good anyway. LOL...
On May 19, 5:58 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -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- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
