Ryan Rix said (on or about) 07/17/2009 19:30: > On Fri 17 July 2009 3:28:09 pm Dmitry Grinberg wrote: > >> they forgot the last part >> >> "oh and thanks for letting us walk all over you and marginalize you >> over the 2-3 year long EOL period of PalmOS, please allow us to >> continue this now by giving you a javascript-only SDKs that does not >> even allow you to distribute your apps outside of our 100%-controlled >> appstore" >> > > BUT Apple is perfect in this respect and we should all spread love for them > and hate on Palm like we were three weeks ago, right? ...right? > Times change. Were developers mad when DOS was killed off for Windows? It's > progress... If you don't want to do JS, then hack on the Pre from a rooted > device, and have some fun in good ole GNU/Linux. Or find a different mailing > list to go to and a new development system to develop on. > If you don't like the "100% Palm controlled appstore", you could always > develop for iPhone, on the off chance that you own a Mac. Oh wait... hm... > You > NEED a Mac PC AND you can still only redistribute in the iPhone apps store. > Way to go for bashing Palm again, guys. > Or you could release your apps as obfuscated source, or powered mostly by a > backend, and let people compile things for their 'testing environment' and > legally sideload them. > > Just because webOS killed your market for hacks, Dmitry, doesn't mean that it > is a worthless platform, or anything like that. The guys at Palm did a heck > of > a job on mojo, and just because it's OMGNOWTF JAVASCRIPT SUX LOL doesn't make > it any less of a platform than the ObjC iCrap or Java Android application > suites. > > Ryan > > --- > Ryan Rix > (623)-826-0051 > > <igor> Hah! we have 2 Johnie Ingrams in the channel :) > <igor> Hey all btw :) > > http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://twitter.com/phrkonaleash > XMPP: phrkonale...@gmail.com | MSN: phrkonale...@yahoo.com > AIM: phrkonaleash | Yahoo: phrkonaleash > IRC: phrkon...@irc.freenode.net/#srcedit,#teensonlinux,#plugaz and > countless other FOSS channels. > > Does anyone else remember when iPhone was new and Apple said "just write web applications"?
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