Like wise as someone vaguely involved in canvas for A&M i'm not sure what I'm allowed to say other than it looks very cool from a tech point of view ... also the UX rocks
It seems like a massive leveler in terms of indies/advertisers/ small tv companies and generally a win-win-win for everyone that doesn't own there own platform and make shed loads of bespoke /proprietary stuff for other people because there the mheg experts etc... It's easy to make apps in, it's easy to hire staff to make apps in, it's generally an easy open platform (from what I've seen so far) It's be a step forward for the industry and it'll hopefully improve the competition in the apps/adverts arena Zap -----Original Message----- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Mo McRoberts Sent: 14 October 2009 19:35 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Re: Sky hits out at Project Canvas On 14-Oct-2009, at 19:03, Mr I Forrester wrote: > Just to be clear, I'm not saying we're not allowed to say anything, > its just not clear what we can be said. I've heard so much about > Canvas over the last year, I'm not even sure whats public, whats > hear-say and whats actually secret (if anything) :) > > As some one said its a hot potato. > > I've just started re-reading Jonathan Zittrain's "the future of the > internet and how to stop it." - http://futureoftheinternet.org/. > If you've not read it, go and download it or buy it now. And been > thinking since watching Micromen #b00n5b92, > (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92) about the balance between > the pc and ce (consumer electronics). It's a nice quote, but has suffered the test of time quite badly! Apple did indeed release an SDK, after months of pressure[0] from developers. Subsequently, the two platforms which look the most likely to be worthy competitors to iPhone OS long term (Android and WebOS) are both comparatively open, and most other mobile platforms are also fairly open, even if the delivery mechanisms are a royal pain and the SDKs aren't actually that good. There's a danger of conflating the ability to lock down a device with a need to restrict the platform on which it runs, or even that an open- ended platform requires a whole load of confusing and inappropriate stuff in the CE side in order to be useful, when really that's a matter of good UI design. Freeview STBs, for example, come in all shapes and sizes, and nobody has any real difficulty in choosing one, unless they have specific requirements. The openness of the platform here means that those specific requirements can usually be met in some form or another. My Freeview box is a piece of cheap tat which doesn't do anything interesting or special, and gives me virtually no control over much at all, but the DVB-T PCI card is a different matter altogether! M. -- mo mcroberts http://nevali.net iChat: mo.mcrobe...@me.com Jabber/GTalk: m...@ilaven.net Twitter: @nevali Run Leopard or Snow Leopard? Set Quick Look free with DropLook - http://labs.jazzio.com/DropLook/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
