On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Casey McGuire <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I can understand developers wanting to leverage their .net knowledge, >> but getting productive using XCode and Objective-C is really not too >> painful. There will be some cursing, but you can get through it. :) >> > > The phone market is really fragmented these days, with Nokia, iPhone, > etc. There's a lot of phones being bought, but they're split across > vendors, which means different platforms and not a lot of x-plat > solutions. > > At jQuery Conference this weekend, there was a presentation on Mobile > Apps and a pretty strong suggestion by the author that each platform's > requirements for it's own language might mean writing an app four > times. An alternative might be to write an app in HTML and Javascript > and have it run on all the platforms. The PhoneGap runtime > (http://phonegap.com/) is one that's designed to do this, and is Open > Source. > > The original slideshow was at > http://www.slideshare.net/brianleroux/mobile-javascript. Skip slide 16 -----------------------------
In the back of my mind this was an important aspect, tied to a single phone and THEY have the ability to terminate me and potentially harm my customer relationships. This is not rocket science, You present an app that will do a lot of different functionality and you expose a very small part through phone input screens. You offer the phone GUI for free hoping that organizations will buy into your bigger "application." I wanted to do this back in the late 90s with hand held units and docking stations. Cost was to much and have been waiting for this newer revolution to be accepted by the masses of users. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer SQL Server DBA Web and Winform Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
