On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Max Vlasov <max.vla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sven, although I understand what you're talking about, I think this is a > case when MS partially learned from their own mistakes as well as from > google success.
No, it has nothing to do with it. They really are just evil, unethical and not worth a single drop of trust. > As long as I remember, even first Windows CE binaries could > be created for several processors architecures, while the main competitor, > Palm, only to a single (Motorola). The latter was a real benefit for general > user. Of all other factors which make Palm obsolete you picked up a small technical detail which the users couldn't care less about. > Managed code (if I understand this concept correctly) would allow > exsting multiply process architectures transparent to the developer. Imagine > x86 architecture would finally overcome power-saving issues and be the > winner over ARM (unlikely, but just imagine), who would not suffer? Andorid > and Windows Phone, and who would have hard times? iOS and Symbian This problem is non-existant. In the worse case you have one download per architecture. And yes, sure, yeah, right that managed code solves anything. I know a couple of Android apps which have different downloads for version 1.5, 1.6, etc, because of platform differences. How is it better then one download per architecture + a good designed API with better compatibility? Even then you can have something like the Universal Binaries from Mac. Plus, Mac OS X had no trouble migrating to x86. If anything it was only better then developing for PowerPC. You can see it as an excelent example of a successful platform migration. And if they want to virtualize something they could virtualize one processor, like Rosetta virtualized PowerPC in x86 > Although, on the other side, if your writing native, you will invest in > something more solid. Motorola processor is gone, but the c code for example > of my reader for PalmOS is open source and anyone can change it at least > leaving some code from the past. But your c code won't run in Windows Phone. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
