Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
On Nov 13, 2007, at 12:37 AM, Bob La Quey wrote:
<quote>
In stark contrast to Apple, which plans to release a
software developer for its iPhone in February, half a
year after the product began shipping, Google is
releasing its SDK about a year before any Android
phones ship.
</quote>
Instead of designing an entire product, and making sure they stabilize
the APIs and software before letting developers loose on it, Google had
punted, decided that "someone else will do the hardware, and we don't
really care about it." Google released their phone software platform, a
developers kit, and an emulator and told people to "have at it."
All jesting aside:
When the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch SDK hits in February, you will
immediately have devices that can use your applications.
But there is no way to write your applications in the meantime. Which
means there will be months of delay from the time the development kit is
released until the applications start to roll out.
Where are all the Google Android phones? Oh, we have to wait for the
handset manufacturers to actually design/test/build/ship them. Will I
be able to hold one in my hand in March and load my code onto it?
Just sayin'.
I don't see this as any different than how hardware manufactures build
simulators for their products for test and development before the real
thing is built. Allowing you to write code ahead of time, test and debug
in the simulator before loading it into an actual device seems like a
good thing to me.
Gus
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