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The Enterprises I work with IE the Government, won't allow Apple in their product line at all. Why you ask, because they are a closed system. Android on the o

• zmmmmm 16y ago
  Absolutely - as a business owner I want the complete ability to customize things and deploy whatever apps on there that do whatever I want, whenever I want. I don't want nobody telling me what to do. And no, requiring 500 employees or using 90 day ad hoc deployment is not nearly satisfactory. Not to mention that your average enterprise has a bajillion lines of java code that, it just so happens (with the exception of UI, obviously), runs nearly without modification on Android. One thing I am hoping for (and looking forward to) is a 2nd wave of Android devices which are dedicated special purpose tools. At some point cheap hardware that runs Android is going to become so pervasive that it will start showing up in everything from desk calculators to portable POS applications to medical devices. The attraction of being able to take the raw source code and specialize it for whatever task you have at hand while leveraging the huge Android ecosystem is amazing. This has yet to happen but I really hope it will.
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    • zmmmmm 16y ago
      You don't think Java code is easy to port to Android? I've done plenty of it - there are plenty of wrinkles but an enormous amount of stuff that works without any change at all. It's certainly starkly different to porting it to Objective C.
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