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I think it might be just the right amount, in the nick of time. The things this appears to do well are better than the iPhone's -- there appear to be fewer wal
by bonaldi 18y ago
I think it might be just the right amount, in the nick of time.
The things this appears to do well are better than the iPhone's -- there appear to be fewer walls between data, and the Synergy stuff is a very nice touch. The OS is built on JSON data sharing, and the webapps are installed locally. For all the sorts of things I do with iPhone apps, a local browser w/local data would be sufficient. What's more, since lots of people are making custom iPhone webapps anyway, it shouldn't be too hard to go a bit further and make them Palm-native to boot.
Games are going to be a big question, however. CSS+JS? Hm.
- iofthestorm 18y ago> Games are going to be a big question, however. CSS+JS? Hm. Yeah, that was my thinking as well. The phone and OS overall look superb, but I was wondering what would happen to games and other applications that just can't be written with HTML+JS. If they left it the way they have, The other thing is that by catering to web developers, they cut out a lot of traditional software developers who haven't or don't want to learn the whole web app system.
- lallysingh 18y agoTwo things: 1. Yeah, games are probably out until flash gets on this thing. But frankly, the iPhone apps market looks today like what the Facebook apps market looked when it came out. People went in, wrote lots of shit applications (and a small number of good ones), and then the whole market died. 2. Which traditional software developers can't do HTML & Javascript? Frankly I think it's a better option than Objective-C or googleJava.
- wmf 18y agoGames are going to be a big question, however. CSS+JS? Don't forget canvas.