On 2/11/2011 11:13 AM, Mike Wolfson wrote: > This really makes sense for Nokia. Their Meego platform is likely DOA > (and the date of arrival keeps getting pushed further out). Windows > Phone 7 is a viable platform they will be able to leverage > immediately. > > This is good for the Mobile industry. I am happy to see another > platform emerge. More competition encourages more innovation.
I guess I have the opposite take. I think fewer PLATFORMS is better; the competition can be among implementations rather than by changing the underlying OS. Ideally the OS should be invisible. At present there isn't even a native toolkit available for WP7, so you're forced to use C#; if an NDK shows up, it's less of a big deal that it's different, because it would be possible to write cross-platform code, but it's still a pain to have to deal with a major new OS with its own quirks (and no OpenGL, if I guess correctly) instead of just the quirks you get in particular implementations of Android. Aside from that, technology is usually pushed along by early adopters. I don't see most of my early adopter friends going out and buying WP7 phones, no matter who's making them, so I think of this as suicide for Nokia. Maybe Nokia will make better hardware than is currently available on the first WP7 phones, but there's already a market with lots of good apps in Android and iPhone; what's the motivation for people to jump to another platform at this point? Ended up writing a blog entry to that effect. [1] Tim [1] http://realmensch.org/blog/rip-nokia -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
