-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/10/10 01:54 , William Ferguson wrote: > OK, > > firstly deploying your app without obfuscating the code was a > mistake. But now that its happened why do you think someone who is > selling a paid version of your app and who will have a hard time > maintaining the code (decompiling doesn't give you a nice base to > work from) is going to be able to compete with a free up to date > version from you? > > Secondly 1) I don't find Java particularly slow. But you can expect > that its performance on a device will improve as more devices can > access to JIT. 2) Eclipse is OK, but you don't have to use it. I > don't, I prefer IntelliJ. Yes it costs, but not much. There's also the NetBeans option. > 3) Yes, the emulator is slow to start up, but after that its fine. > So don't close it between each iteration. I don't. > Indeed, the very fact that with Android one has got all these options, while with iPhone doesn't (and you *have* to buy a mac) makes the comparison pretty useless to me (in favour of Android). Of course, this is partly subjective.
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