On Feb 11, 10:40 am, Tim Mensch <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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