Development for mobile devices .. good timming Apple
A few months back I wrote my blog entry in Spanish about how Steve Jobs ran out of the standing ovation when he announced the proposal for developers to do things for the iPhone were the webapps ...
But now everything is much clearer. 10 years ago that I'm more or less related to the development for mobile devices. I know from the kitchen PalmOS, Windows Mobile (ecs!), Java 2 Micro Edition and lately I've look at Google's Android. And this is what I think:
- To develop for PalmOS must be a hacker's fifteen, well done must be programmed in C as the real "machotes"
and to compile and debugger must draw a pentacle on the floor and invoke telúriques forces. Kudos to all developers of Palm!
- Windows Mobile is not a platform, is developed. Net or Microsoft compiler at the time. It is like a windows program with all the facilities, but when you put the database and logs more than 500 crashes everywhere, and the machines do strange things. so is the market penetration that although there are are made from the strip.
- J2ME is the option to schedule the "cheap phone" that will give operators to change programs because the points stoically endure their voice plans and data predatory pricing, as may always makes oligopoly. Platform is a hyper-limited in that any function that requires a developer to have the curry from scratch, access to phone features (such as access to the SD card or camera phone) are not standard and implementations of the most advanced features behave differently in each terminal. A nightmare on and you find that the operators have capada instlació Java applications in many terminals installed to prevent things like GMail client and force us to buy the paid services (some very low quality according to my tests). Sun and manufacturers must last platform to start making a little more if the younger brother of the Java family
- Google has taken down with Android: A platform that defines a well-designed operating system software for mobile devices, which are a kind of Java program (which Sun has not certified) and has access to native phone and utilities as a database engine. But now there is no terminal market and not a consolidated platform. I hope to have considerable success as the only alternative is to have a fully open source operating system for consumer terminals. Alternatives such as mucus or Open ACCESS Linux Platform (who bought the Japanese PalmOS, not Palm hardware division) are not mature and lack the capacity and impact.
And Steve Jobs without development platform was released to developers and is in less than a year with a very significant market for high-end handsets. Obviously this year all have imitated the conference and saw a pile of Barcelona knockoffs of the iPhone running the world. Apple knew that the copy ... actually I guess I expected ...
And yesterday, when members of the circle of MacBreak said that it does not present anything, but it would be a preview of the SDK is actually present in the Apple Developer Conference this summer ... PAM!
Has unveiled an SDK that is technically: THE HOST!
The potential applications can be developed with the SDK I've seen the video is simply stunning. This may not be copied. When all platforms are developers agobiats traps, specifications unreliable and poorly designed SDK's, tools, Apple has a well structured, organized by services (core services) and I can assure you there is nothing missing!
Even the delivery strategy seems appropriate, since it sucks 30% of the possible billing for software to consider if there is not that bad given the hosting, bandwidth, cost of cards, and promotional you do ... and do not charge a penny for the freeware!
Tomas told us that you are questioning the figure of Uncle Steve as CEO ... then finally comes the responsibility of one of the largest venture capital firms, calls for a standing ovation for Jobs and announced a program funding of $ 100,000,000 for entrepreneurs on iPhone ..
The iPhone with the type of software that can develop with this SDK can turn into something bigger than the PC. How scary!
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Very good article Ludo, congratulations. I totally agree. The key to development, whether mobile or not, is to provide tools really "productive" for developers, the methodology inherent in the tools that will make the applications are, in principle, more or less reliable, and in releasing circuits, maintenance, delivery and distribution of professional applications.
I have no experience in "Mobility" but I know in detail how it works in a "software factory" and I know WorkBrench is vital.
Yesterday, Apple gave us a WorkBrench for iPhone "based on Mac OS X," which is the best I could if I wanted to make a "high productivity" and "ease of implementation" for developers, and he did after putting the market a device I-net browser CAPADA NO.
The cabxxxx are closing the circle
Jobs coming on to dominate the world! lol
An excellent report Ludo!
And Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest ...
Once more Jobs has left the amazed when everyone was ramblings about whether or not Apple would enter the world of video games, according to published patents, is that this platform already existed and duiem in our pockets, the iPhone seemed a device of the future, but now this is confirmed, the iPhone is osama!
Article magnificent (and very funny comments
Thanks to all! Encourages written comments received and if promising even better.
@ Macpolen: You are absolutely right, that the iPhone's accelerometer works on 3 axes did not know and has not stopped yam paste. But I guess the competition has long been disassembled iPhones and he has studied well .. wait to see the successor of the Nintendo DS! In reality, all gain!
Ludo, the iPhone SDK is not far from the SDK for Mac applications. So it's not expected that all can access the iPhone as well as celery is to develop for Mac.
Now if I'm a member of the ADC (Apple Developer Connection), because I have to return me to register to download the iPhone SDK? It would give a straightforward "OK or Cancel" to download the new SDK?
@ Macbitxo 1) suposos that people already jailbreak the empescaran to remove a version more "freestyle" the sdk being able to do things like connect to skype via wifi ... (2) church here with the heme clashes friend "macbitxo" Apple ... REALLY want to know what are the developers that want to make things with the iPhone, so we ask that you re-register and accept that we pay $ 99 (lucky that was strong €) if we run it on our iPod touch extraperlo and iPhones ...
A bit of behaviorism to get more reliable data for their models to plan world domination