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"We believe 280 North will be instrumental in helping us continue to foster the Android ecosystem with innovative web-based technologies and applications." Iro

by quux 16y ago

"We believe 280 North will be instrumental in helping us continue to foster the Android ecosystem with innovative web-based technologies and applications." Ironic, since cappuccino is an implementation of Apple's Cocoa frameworks in javascript. Are we going to see a lot of Objective-j running on droids now?

zitterbewegung 16y ago
I agree. It doesn't seem like a good fit for motorola unless they start adapting their framework for the droid?
mhd 16y ago
In light of the recent Oracle lawsuit and Apple's general litigious nature, I asked myself the same. The OpenStep specification is, well, open as far as I know, and nobody ever bothered GNUStep, who even seemed to extend from the OpenStep roots into Cocoa territory, but when it's Motorola, and not just a random bunch of hackers… Still, congratulations to the 280 North guys. That seems like a neat bundle of money.
whalesalad 16y ago
What do you mean are we? Objective-j does run on Android (aka, Droids as people are beginning to refer to them thanks to Verizon's marketing)... it runs on anything. It lives inside of the web browser. The "j" in Objective-J stands for JavaScript :) Any half-decent browser will run Objective-J applications. Motorola's move has nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with the people. As someone commented earlier, Motorola just gained one hell of a web team.
- quux 16y ago
  Yeah, I know droid != android. But since I was thinking about motorola I said droid by accident. What I guess I'm asking is will motorola really use 280 North's tech for web based projects that any phone could access? Or will they be presented as bundled apps that appear to be native Android apps but really written in Objective-J using cappuccino?
- greendestiny 16y ago
  I think its everything to do with the technology. Web apps are a huge part of the future for mobile devices - this gives them a huge in. Frameworks are really important strategically - they can optimize Cappuccino for their devices and even add functionality specific to their devices.

by quux 16y ago

zitterbewegung 16y ago

I agree. It doesn't seem like a good fit for motorola unless they start adapting their framework for the droid?

mhd 16y ago

In light of the recent Oracle lawsuit and Apple's general litigious nature, I asked myself the same. The OpenStep specification is, well, open as far as I know, and nobody ever bothered GNUStep, who even seemed to extend from the OpenStep roots into Cocoa territory, but when it's Motorola, and not just a random bunch of hackers… Still, congratulations to the 280 North guys. That seems like a neat bundle of money.

whalesalad 16y ago

What do you mean are we? Objective-j does run on Android (aka, Droids as people are beginning to refer to them thanks to Verizon's marketing)... it runs on anything. It lives inside of the web browser. The "j" in Objective-J stands for JavaScript :) Any half-decent browser will run Objective-J applications. Motorola's move has nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with the people. As someone commented earlier, Motorola just gained one hell of a web team.

quux 16y ago
Yeah, I know droid != android. But since I was thinking about motorola I said droid by accident. What I guess I'm asking is will motorola really use 280 North's tech for web based projects that any phone could access? Or will they be presented as bundled apps that appear to be native Android apps but really written in Objective-J using cappuccino?
greendestiny 16y ago
I think its everything to do with the technology. Web apps are a huge part of the future for mobile devices - this gives them a huge in. Frameworks are really important strategically - they can optimize Cappuccino for their devices and even add functionality specific to their devices.