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Doug Stewart  
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 More options Nov 15 2007, 7:21 am
From: "Doug Stewart" <zamo...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:21:50 -0500
Local: Thurs, Nov 15 2007 7:21 am
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] iPhone Content Winner
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On Nov 15, 2007 7:19 AM, Doug Stewart <zamo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Nov 15, 2007 4:45 AM, Jeremy Visser <jeremy.vis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 22:04 -0800, Daniel Cameron wrote:
> > > Better yet, use the Apple SDK (when released) to create an iPhone app. Only
> > > this time the winner gets...

> > What, creating an app for the proprietary iPhone platform will be better
> > than one that will run on the open Android platform?

> And don't forget, the OHA/Android spec calls for OpenGL support (at
> least on the high-end devices).  Think of the niftiness (dare I say
> "Leopard-ness"?) that clever devs will be able to wrangle the devices
> into with that sort of hardware backing...!

> I must admit, there's a great deal to having an OPEN SDK right now,
> with known license and usage restrictions, as opposed to having a
> promised one whose constraints, "code signing", licenses, etc., are
> not yet even known to those outside of Cupertino.

Replying to myself here:
Even if we have a great SDK release from Apple, just how many
Objective C compilers do YOU know of for Linux and Windows?  And yet,
Java/Eclipse/Ant all exist and work well on just about every platform
out there.

Heck, we may well see dedicated OpenBSD Android hackers... *grin*

--
-Doug

http://literalbarrage.org/blog/
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