On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Karsten Silz <[email protected]>wrote:
> It really does seem that Apple designs products differently than > everybody else out there - start with a small core that Apple gets > right and then add to it in later iterations, relatively polished all > along the way > Yeah, Android tackled a much bigger problem right away. However, I wouldn't say that, from a developer's point of view, there have been a lot of mistakes that have needed big refactorings. A few things have been deprecated and some semantics have changed, but mostly features have been added to improve the way things are done. At some point, hopefully they'll find a way to break backwards compatibility to clean stuff up. finally Google hands out betas to developers ahead of time (is > the Gingerbread SDK even available yet?) Yes, it's been available for a few weeks. Maybe the reason Google doesn't feel compelled to hand out betas early is that they know the new version will take time to trickle out to devices (other than the Nexus family), so devs have time to update their apps. On iOS, everyone gets the new version as soon as it's released, so developers really need the SDK early. Is backwards compatibility as important in the iOS world as it is in Android/Java? Moandji -- 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.
