You can call me a fanboy, but the SDK looks sweet.
Engadget has the usual full cover up of the event. I was amazed because I only expected a xcode based tool, but they again come with a end to end solution (also controversial : 100 bucks for the dev license).
If the community did a incredible amount of apps with a hacked sdk, let’s see what the real apple developers will do with that (we saw some)
What pisses me off, is that is not about the apple thing, but the apple way to promote design more, and how this create a very powerful community because even a simple app looks nice. Looks does matter. Looks does matter!
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Hi Marcelo. It’s been a while we don’t talk each other. But I’m still here following your posts :-)
Seems like we’re going to have a strong SDK player in the market joining Symbian, Linux, and others such as Android. Alliances such as S60 and OHA seems to have the idea of integration of platforms. Java ME platform intends the same with initiatives to decrease fragmentation and improve the technology such as MSA and JavaFX.
Doesn’t it seems like, even being cool or enhanced, Apple is going under it’s own direction as the “Apple way of live”?
Cheers!
March 7th, 2008 at 7:29 pmHi Luis,
I don’t think s60 and OHA will integrate platforms :) but this is personal opinion, and long has been the time Java should have avoided the fragmentation, and I think sun is paying the price. Even Android just uses the syntax, and creates a brand new platform.
But the case is not the fragmentation in this point, but the quality of the tool you use to develop to. We are talking about fully native development, were fragmentation is the law.
So apple is naturally following their way with a OsX sdk, and I don’t see how you could have native development without doing “your OS way”. Java? hell no.
March 10th, 2008 at 6:04 am