Not that Apple is that much better. No Java, no plans for it. They are way ahead in terms of hardware and SDK stability, but Objective C is platform specific and much harder to use than Java. Every cellphone maker wants to control the market and keep the app market open to themselves and their partners. They're all terrified that what happened to IBM in the PC market will happen to them. Some day a cellphone platform will come along that enables real application development on a stable platform available from multiple manufacturers. (That's what I'd hoped Android was.) Then the market will really take off. Until then, we're stuck with fragmentation, like PC app developers before Microsoft crushed everybody.
On Jul 15, 4:26 pm, "Shane Isbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:13 PM, daspears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My (somewhat) poetic appeal (posted here recently and repeated below) > > didn't get us anywhere. > > Personally, I'm heading over to iPhone development. > > The Apple App Store did 10 million downloads in the first five days. Android > has a long way to go in a very competitive field. Without developer support, > Google and the carriers are going to need one hell of a consumer product. > > Shane --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
