Moblin dev team,
I love your os. From a visual design point of view it puts jolicloud
and chromeos to shame.
I'm new to the project so if I get my facts wrong please forgive me.
The one weakness I see with the project is level of difficulty in
developing new applications.
Chrome os is used to access new and existing web applications. They
demoed running the web versions of ms office and running gmail and
google apps. Anything that'll run on the web will run on chrome os.
Jolicloud takes a slightly different approach. You can add web
applications to the desktop from their app library. This uses Mozilla
prisim to wrap the site so it behaves like an app. They also support
the adobe air runtime so you can run any air app.
The problem I see with moblin is that if a developer wants to write an
app for the os, it has to be written in c.
Unfortunately, technical merits don't always win with capturing
mindshare with the market - look at os/2 and windows 3.1. What counts
is the number of apps available for the platform. It wasn't until
Microsoft lowered the barrier of entry to developing Windows apps from
c to visual basic that Windows took off.
You've got a great product and a great looking product. I'd love to
see it become widely successful. What I think would help that would be
a user experience strategy that supports the ease of designing and
developing new applications.
I've been a developer for about 15 years, have been working as a user
experience designer for the last 5 and have a foot in both worlds.
I've got some ideas for how to do this if anyone's interested.
If I've misunderstood the situation, I apologize. Like I said earlier,
I'm new to the project so if my analysis is wrong, please ignore this.
This is one of the most elegant operating systems I've seen and would
love to help out if possible.
Thank you,
David
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