[android-discuss] Re: Industry Standard article on deciding which mobile platform to develop for

2008-07-08 Thread Shane Isbell
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 6:16 AM, YA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Muthu: trust but verify is actually an old Russian adage that Reagan picked from Gorby, and Russian culture apparently picked it from some obscure Latin source... Ah, the good old days. Now back to figuring out how and why the

[android-discuss] Re: Industry Standard article on deciding which mobile platform to develop for

2008-07-08 Thread Muthu Ramadoss
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Shane Isbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 6:16 AM, YA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Muthu: trust but verify is actually an old Russian adage that Reagan picked from Gorby, and Russian culture apparently picked it from some obscure Latin

[android-discuss] Re: Industry Standard article on deciding which mobile platform to develop for

2008-07-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anil, Muthu and Steve, If your application is designed to run on the top and does not require background processes i.e. is not a service, Google Gears for Mobile might solve the 'run on other platforms issues.' ( I keep forgetting about this for others as our stuff needs to run in the

[android-discuss] Re: Industry Standard article on deciding which mobile platform to develop for

2008-07-06 Thread YA
Muthu: trust but verify is actually an old Russian adage that Reagan picked from Gorby, and Russian culture apparently picked it from some obscure Latin source... YA On Jul 4, 4:35 am, Muthu Ramadoss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its frustrating for all the early developers and the small companies

[android-discuss] Re: Industry Standard article on deciding which mobile platform to develop for

2008-07-06 Thread Muthu Ramadoss
Ed, Gears is for web apps, what about native mobile apps? On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 6:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anil, Muthu and Steve, If your application is designed to run on the top and does not require background processes i.e. is not a service, Google Gears for

[android-discuss] Re: Industry Standard article on deciding which mobile platform to develop for

2008-07-06 Thread Muthu Ramadoss
Ed, Great notes. This shows how much you think through a topic. 1. Google might not be that enthusiastic about Flash since that would give Flash more control over the mobile, just like they do over the browsers. 2. Gears in a neat idea for web apps. Now if we all build webapps and then run it

[android-discuss] Re: Industry Standard article on deciding which mobile platform to develop for

2008-07-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anil, I used vacation days as fast as they were accrued. Your attribution seems consistent with my experiences. It is kind of like you open up a restaurant and then the new road that was to bring those customers that you planned to serve introduces a construction delay. A delay so severe that

[android-discuss] Re: Industry Standard article on deciding which mobile platform to develop for

2008-07-04 Thread Steve Oldmeadow
Anil, I was having a think about your situation and I think it would really make sense to have a look at Java ME or Blackberry. With Java ME even if you only concentrated on Nokia Series 60.3 and on you are still talking about a market in the 10s of millions. It seems like every second person I

[android-discuss] Re: Industry Standard article on deciding which mobile platform to develop for

2008-07-03 Thread JP
On Jul 3, 5:38 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just like Java made Network Programming easy, Android is making Mobile Programming easy. I would be a testament to that... but only because the two developers we had lined up for the challenge did not get past the 'development