I'd say the compelling thing about Android is not its market share now, but what it stands to gain in the near future. I suppose it's the same argument about Apple always going its own way and controlling their own microcosm of products. One might argue however, that these days the market does demand openness and interoperability, but it's hard for me to be objective on that one. Everyone in this group has a techy bias on the issue.
Alexey ________________________________ From: Joshua Marinacci <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 10:20:45 AM Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: Palm PRE has Java Are there that many apps already? Android is still a very new platform as well. Palm is building a device where they control the entire user experience. They would adopt Android over their own technology only if there were huge compelling technical advantages, or a tremendous amount of apps and market adoption. I don't know if that's the case. If the Pre were coming out 2 years from now the story might be different, but today they went with the simplest way to access the largest group of developers: JavaScript. As a developer on a competing platform (JavaFX) I certainly hope they will allow richer applications in the future using better a better platform than JavaScript (since they already have a JVM), but I completely understand why they went with pure JavaScript. Is there something that compelling about Android that I'm missing? - Josh On Jun 12, 2009, at 6:49 AM, Viktor Klang wrote: I'd argue that being able to tap into the growing number of Android apps would be better than having to rely on people to rewrite apps for a rather small market (Palm Pre). >It's really all about being able to increase adoption rate by offering a rich >platform at launch. > >Viktor, >Scala Loudmouth > >12 jun 2009 kl. 15.27 Joshua Marinacci <[email protected]> skrev: > > >I'm not sure why you think it was a bad decision to not use Android? Their >current solution lets anyone who knows JavaScript write apps for the platform? >While it may be limited compared to other technologies it gives them the >widest number of developers. >> >> >>On Jun 12, 2009, at 12:03 AM, Viktor Klang wrote: >> >> >>> >>>On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Joshua Marinacci <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>Why us that? >>> >>>Developers, developer, developers developers... >>> >>> >>>> >>>>- Josh, on the go >>>> >>>>On Jun 11, 2009, at 11:56 PM, Viktor Klang <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>I'm loving the unit, the design and hardware, but in my mind it was a >>>>rather bad decision _not_ to use Android. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:11 AM, RogerV <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>One of my developers already has the Palm PRE. I like it. Well, for >>>>>>one, I do a lot of email so a physical keyboard would be a premium >>>>>>item for me. I tried out the PRE slide out keyboard and was able to do >>>>>>well with it. >>>>>> >>>>>>Otherwise, very iPhone-ish experience. The browser has pinch gestures >>>>>>for zoom much like iPhone Safari. >>>>>> >>>>>>I like the size better than iPhone too. A wee bit more compact but >>>>>>perhaps with a bit more thickness than iPhone. >>>>>> >>>>>>This individual already had the PRE's imap email client hooked up to >>>>>>suck email off our corporate Exchange server. Our Exchange server has >>>>>>HTTPS Internet web access, but just by entering that URL, he was able >>>>>>to configure the client to do imap with Exchange. >>>>>> >>>>>>This individual also says it can connect to iTunes and that he can >>>>>>download content - I was not aware that Apple permitted non-Apple >>>>>>clients to connect to the iTunes service. Hmm. That's a biggie. Of >>>>>>course there's some sort of Palm store too. Perhaps Amazon can be >>>>>>hooked up as well. Not sure on that... >>>>>> >>>>>>And there's an app on there called SprintTV. Not sure if this comes >>>>>>bundled with Sprint service plan or if is an extra cost option. Didn't >>>>>>get into any of the particulars about service plans. >>>>>> >>>>>>I rather liked this phone. Hope it does well. Am tempted to dump my >>>>>>Blackberry Perl, is just that the company pays for the blackberry and >>>>>>its service plan. If I got a PRE, I'd be on my own. Same with iPhone, >>>>>>though. So I stay in my Blackberry rut. Course can't knock the berry >>>>>>when it comes to corporate email, which is my life. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>-- >>>>>Viktor Klang >>>>>Scala Loudmouth >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>>-- >>>Viktor Klang >>>Scala Loudmouth >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
