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This was never true on the two dominant smart phone platforms, Palm OS and Windows Mobile. Development on the former required only Codewarrior while the latter
by necubi 15y ago
This was never true on the two dominant smart phone platforms, Palm OS and Windows Mobile. Development on the former required only Codewarrior while the latter VS.Net, which became free. Neither Palm nor Microsoft ever required you to pay them money either to develop or release applications, nor did they require approval for those applications to run on devices.
You're comparing Apple's smart phone ecosytem against other companies' dumb phone ecosystems. A more reasonable comparison against other smart phone platforms shows that Apple's is unusually restrictive.
- sambeau 15y agoWhen I owned a Palm, software was prohibitively expensive, hard-to-find, buggy and rarely did what it advertised.
- asmosoinio 15y agoActually, virtually all dumb phones allow installation of Mobile Java applications (.jar), and most have no limits on the source of the applications (at least in Europe, I know of some limitations for US carriers and certain devices). Once you can send a link to the installation file to your phone, you are good to go.