Probably better to look back at Palm' early attitude: They released the initial Palm Pilot in June, and by October had their 1st developer's conference outside of Chicago. The fact that they announced their new release without a developer kit being available is ominous; it may not mean anything long-term, but short-term is does not indicate a real concern for their developer group.
In some respects this does not surprise me; the converged device has moved way past the technologist's toy into the realm of the mass market. And the issue there will not be how many apps there are available, but what they have that targets the mass market. Very few existing products or developers fall into this category, and so they are probably not on the Palm radar screen. ____________________________________________ Lee Church www.mobitechsystems.com -----Original Message----- From: Roger Stringer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 10:32 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Are you feeling special? (Re: OS) While the sources for the iPhone and Mac OS haven't been published, they are based on open source BSD Unix. The BSD license allows the modifier to retain their changes. So Linux/Unix is now the basis for Palm's webOS, Apple iPhone and Google Android. Add Access's ALP to be polite, since this forum is still hosted by them! :) Palm also went with WebKit, which is the open source browser engine from Apple, and is also used in the iPhone, Safari and Chrome web browsers. (what does Android use?) The big issue for developers is the difference in development environments. Apple require you to create apps in their own Object C on a Mac. Google's Android uses a semi-compiled Java, using Eclipse on Linux and Windows. Palm's webOS development is going to be JS/CSS/HTML/HTML5 and they have not provided many other details. Also keep in mind it took nearly a year for Apple to release their development system after the iPhone's announcement, and Palm are already talking a little about their's. Roger Stringer At 03:15 AM 1/17/2009, you wrote: >Subject: Re: Are you feeling special? >From: Frantisek Dufka <[email protected]> >Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:45:44 +0100 >X-Message-Number: 1 > >Lionscribe wrote: > > Well it's a question between Capitalism & Socialism. > >Yes, this is precisely the mindset I was talking about ;-) This FUD was >quite popular 10 years ago. The GPL is a cancer was a good one too :-) > > > Usualy Capitalism is more successful. > >This may work well in material world (where marginal production costs >are not zero) but it is not as good recipe in virtual world (the world >of 'intellectual property'). >http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=all > > > Though OpenSource projects are great for the savvy, they usualy > are not successful with end consumer. > > For example, Linux may be great for servers which are maintained > by techs, but it will never be a real option for the average Joe. > The reason, is there is not much money to be made. > > So for a PDA OS, stop OpenSource talking, Roger Stringer Marietta Systems, Inc. (www.rf-tp.com) -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/ -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
