On May 13, 6:34 pm, "Shane Isbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We have yet to see
> their strategy for changing the mobile ecosystem, which is the real problem
> here, not an open handset. You got a very small taste of that. It will get
> ten times worse.
>
> The sad fact is that Google doesn't own the mobile networks and so they
> don't call the shots. I do think Google's end goal is great, particularly
> for the end user; but I also have concerns that the developer community is
> being used as cannon fodder to try to break down the walls.
>
> We are entering a hostile environment, but an environment that has
> potential. If we stick together and push through this, and not get picked
> off one-by-one, we have a fighting chance. So keep at it, open-source or
> give it away if you have to.
>
> Shane
>
Concur. I was down at the SV-GTUG meeting for the App Engine
presentation yesterday and spoke to a guy about Android and mobile
technologies in general. I got the impressions he's way more of a
mobile nut than I am and really into it. He's having a DNS (did not
start) approach to the development of client side applications, i.e.
he's not interested in developing apps for handsets, focusing
completely on the server side by relying on ever increasingly better
handset browsers. Main problem, as we discussed: Getting client apps
on handsets. The channel is still owned by the carriers, so his
strategy is to avoid that altogether. Shall we say, wise man?
Joa
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