On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:27:22AM +0200, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Marco van de Voort <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Lazarus is not suitable for trying to follow fast moving trends. Iphone
> > was just yesterday, and even that is not really ready.
> 
> I don't think that Lazarus is a bad choice for smartphone platforms,
> it would be a great tool for targetting Android and iPhone at the same
> time. The only issue is that we lack developers.

> MonoTouch does the same thing Lazarus intends to do, but they are more
> successful because they have money.

Yes. And we have neither the interested developers nor fulltimers to be
quick enough to track fastmoving targets, which was mostly my point.

A side concern is the walled garden concept of many mobile phones. They
don't exactly encourage portable software, but want custom made apps for
their phones, preferably with their recommended tools.

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