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Adobe Aquires PhoneGap

84 points by radley 15y ago

ojbyrne 15y ago
This title seems misleading (and doesn't match the one currently on techcrunch). Adobe acquired Nitobi, the makers of PhoneGap. PhoneGap itself seems to have been "donated" to the Apache foundation. EDIT: fixed stupid brain fart.
- budu3 15y ago
  I think you meant to say Adobe.
citizenkeys 15y ago
PhoneGap has rightfully become the de facto standard for cross-platform mobile development. If anybody knows a PhoneGap-like platform for MacOS development, please let me know.
- drewda 15y ago
  Appcelerator Titanium can produce desktop apps for Mac OS (among many other platforms): http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-desktop-application-development/ http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-desktop-applic...
- AndreCharland 15y ago
  check this out: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-mac https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-mac
bergie 15y ago
This is cool. Thanks to the Day Software acquisition a while back, Adobe has quite a bit of things done on the open via Apache Software Foundation. JackRabbit, Tika, and now PhoneGap. It also signals they're taking the web standards more seriously (PhoneGap mostly tracks the W3C Device API specs)
- AndreCharland 15y ago
  they definitely are and I'm excited to be a part of it:)
deweller 15y ago
Adobe is acquiring Nitobi. PhoneGap (the project) is being submitted for acceptance as an Apache Software Foundation project: Here's the Google Groups discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/phonegap-dev/browse_thread/thread/bc5cbc182707898e http://groups.google.com/group/phonegap-dev/browse_thread/th...
zerostar07 15y ago
Looks like a great talent acquisition. PhoneGap is a temporary (albeit, dragging on for years) solution. How long before the browsers adopt a common interface for mobile capabilities that will render phonegap obsolete...
- AndreCharland 15y ago
  well I'd look at the community building around PhoneGap Plugins for your answer there. I do agree that many of the standard APIs (which we lead/follow W3C on) will be in most mobile browsers in the coming years.
curt 15y ago
With the death of Flash, for front-end web development, likely right around the corner this is a great strategic move by Adobe to stay relevant. Maybe they'll create an XCode like tool for HTML5 using PhoneGap as the glue. With the acquisition of TypeKit it really looks like that's the direction they are heading in. Would be an interesting and useful product.

84 points by radley 15y ago

This title seems misleading (and doesn't match the one currently on techcrunch). Adobe acquired Nitobi, the makers of PhoneGap. PhoneGap itself seems to have been "donated" to the Apache foundation. EDIT: fixed stupid brain fart.

budu3 15y ago
I think you meant to say Adobe.

citizenkeys 15y ago

PhoneGap has rightfully become the de facto standard for cross-platform mobile development. If anybody knows a PhoneGap-like platform for MacOS development, please let me know.

drewda 15y ago
Appcelerator Titanium can produce desktop apps for Mac OS (among many other platforms): http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-desktop-application-development/ http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-desktop-applic...
AndreCharland 15y ago
check this out: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-mac https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-mac

bergie 15y ago

This is cool. Thanks to the Day Software acquisition a while back, Adobe has quite a bit of things done on the open via Apache Software Foundation. JackRabbit, Tika, and now PhoneGap. It also signals they're taking the web standards more seriously (PhoneGap mostly tracks the W3C Device API specs)

AndreCharland 15y ago
they definitely are and I'm excited to be a part of it:)

deweller 15y ago

Adobe is acquiring Nitobi. PhoneGap (the project) is being submitted for acceptance as an Apache Software Foundation project: Here's the Google Groups discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/phonegap-dev/browse_thread/thread/bc5cbc182707898e http://groups.google.com/group/phonegap-dev/browse_thread/th...

zerostar07 15y ago

Looks like a great talent acquisition. PhoneGap is a temporary (albeit, dragging on for years) solution. How long before the browsers adopt a common interface for mobile capabilities that will render phonegap obsolete...

AndreCharland 15y ago
well I'd look at the community building around PhoneGap Plugins for your answer there. I do agree that many of the standard APIs (which we lead/follow W3C on) will be in most mobile browsers in the coming years.

curt 15y ago

With the death of Flash, for front-end web development, likely right around the corner this is a great strategic move by Adobe to stay relevant. Maybe they'll create an XCode like tool for HTML5 using PhoneGap as the glue. With the acquisition of TypeKit it really looks like that's the direction they are heading in. Would be an interesting and useful product.