Am 16.11.2010 23:07, schrieb Max Vlasov:
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com <mailto:pascaldra...@googlemail.com>> wrote:At least not on unhacked devices, cause they only allow .NET applications (more precise: Silverlight and XNA applications). One of those decisions that I can not (and want not) understand... Sven, although I understand what you're talking about, I think this is a case when MS partially learned from their own mistakes as well as from google success. As long as I remember, even first Windows CE binaries could be created for several processors architecures, while the main competitor, Palm, only to a single (Motorola). The latter was a real benefit for general user. Managed code (if I understand this concept correctly) would allow exsting multiply process architectures transparent to the developer. Imagine x86 architecture would finally overcome power-saving issues and be the winner over ARM (unlikely, but just imagine), who would not suffer? Andorid and Windows Phone, and who would have hard times? iOS and Symbian Although, on the other side, if your writing native, you will invest in something more solid. Motorola processor is gone, but the c code for example of my reader for PalmOS is open source and anyone can change it at least leaving some code from the past. Knowing the MS attitute toward backward compatibility in general, invest or not invest in .Net and Silverlight is a big question.
For me Windows Mobile is THE free mobile OS on the market. I can write applications in any language I want (which supports Windows Mobile...), I can play around in the OS as I want it. I can basically do anything with that Phone that is mine as I see necessary. That's why I dislike Apple, cause they basically think the phone still belongs to them, and that's why I dislike Android, because I'm forced to use Java if I want to produce real applications. And now comes Windows Phone 7 and destroys this dream mobile OS of mine. Thank you Microsoft.
I hope that some hardware vendors decide to continue developing Windows Mobile 6.5.x phones... until then I'll enjoy every free bit of my HTC Wizard.
Regards, Sven _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
