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Using your own platform with 2 Giants already out in the market is ballsy to say the least. Another way of putting it would be "not very clever". I'm going wi
by paulnelligan 15y ago
Using your own platform with 2 Giants already out in the market is ballsy to say the least. Another way of putting it would be "not very clever". I'm going with the latter here. Unless WebOS is extremely innovative and porting an app from another platform to this is ridiculously simple, it's surely going to fail.
- smackfu 15y agoWebOS apps are Javascript/HTML. So porting from Web to WebOS is the simple thing. https://developer.palm.com/content/resources/develop/building_your_first_app.html https://developer.palm.com/content/resources/develop/buildin...
- DougBTX 15y agoTwo giants? I'm not sure which you mean. iOS, sure. Microsoft has been in tablets for years, and HP has shrugged them off, rightly as far as Windows goes. It will be interesting once they make a tablet size version of the Metro UI. RIM's PlayBook is just getting started, still waiting for an email client. Android is out, but it doesn't seem to be making much impact. Perhaps once it is good enough for Google to release the source for a wider range of hardware something interesting will come out. So, the second place looks like it Is still up for grabs.
- paulnelligan 15y agoI was referring to Android
- zinkem 15y ago>porting an app from another platform to this is ridiculously simple This has been at least a part of the sell. It runs Linux with libSDL, they said they ported the Unreal Engine in about 2 weeks. It also uses gcc, so you could compile Objective-C. http://youtu.be/40ga1lyFPFg http://youtu.be/40ga1lyFPFg