I guess if you jailbreak your phone, you could write open source for it. As for the Android, I have no idea how developer friendly they are, as they seem to be using a rather insular platform too...
Peter On Wednesday 27 May 2009 11:01:03 am Robert Gravina wrote: > 2009/5/26 andisu <[email protected]>: > > Thank you Peter for that information. I am thinking of getting a > > smartphone in near future but have not decided yet which system. > > To run mnemosyne on it would certainly be quite attractive. > > G1 is my favorite, but I am open to others as well. > > Yes, the G1 runs Android I believe? NTT Docomo will soon release an > Android-based phone in Japan (where I am) - unfortunately not knowing > this, I got an iPhone recently (mainly because it was free with a > contract) and am very very disappointed. You have to pay Apple US$99 > per year just for the privilege of writing applications for your own > device. Had I done my research, I would have known about the imminent > NTT phone and the development license but... too late now. Softbank > wouldn't take it back (even though it's been only a week) so I'm now > stuck with a platform that I'm not really keen on developing for. Open > source on the iPhone is practically dead, probably because developers > have to pay to develop for it. > > So... now that I have it I'm not sure if I'll work on an iPhone client > because I'll have to shell out US$99 to do it. I'm tempted to cut my > losses and cancel to get the Android phone later (although this would > be a big waste of money, obviously), wait until Softbank release an > Android phone (which they may) and switch to that (still costly, but > not as much as canceling) or wait until an Android PDA or some similar > portable, not-to-expensive device comes along and get that. > > All in all, I learned a valuable lesson in being patient with > phone/contract purchases. Oh well. > > Robert > > -- ------------------------------------------------ Peter Bienstman Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93 WWW: http://photonics.intec.UGent.be email: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" 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/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
