Hello
Sorry Richard, but I disagree.
I recently read (maybe from this same mailing list) that the iPhone
has more penetration than Linux within internet-connected devices. If
I remember correctly, measurement was taken from Google visitors.
If this is correct, the iPhone would be an important platform for
RunRev.
Regards,
Andres Martinez
www.baKno.com
On Feb 22, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Terry Judd wrote:
If I were RunRev, long before I jumped on the iPhone bandwaqon I'd
make
an engine that runs on the Windows-based handhelds. Simpler API,
and a
much larger installed base.
A Windows mobile version of Rev would be great (hey I think I even
voted for
one in BugZilla about three years ago) but if I could only have one
mobile
Rev platform then it would be for the iPhone/iPod Touch. These are
the first
handheld devices that I've seen that, IMHO, have real potential in
the
education sector. PDAs, whether Windows powered or not, have never
taken off
among students but these just might!
It's a tough call. The iPhone has captured some healthy mindshare,
but like the Mac GUI it won't be long before its gestures (and more)
are simply industry standard.
And for the other capabilities, competing vendors don't have far to
go. I got a Palm Centro for my gal, and it's quite a powerful
little device. And I have to say I prefer the tactile response of a
fixed keypad over the where-did-I-just-press? virtual keypad of the
iPhone. And ideal device may be more like the Sidekick: usable
physical keypad with large screen display. Add gestures and it's an
iPhone-killer.
It'll be interesting to see whether Apple opens up the iPhone
architecture faster than competing vendors add gestures. But while
that race is on, it would take RunRev some time to deliver an engine
for either device. With both the iPhone and competing alternatives
in such a state of flux, the whole thing is quite a moving target,
and in the meantime I really, really, really need independent column
alignment and zero-width columns in Rev fields, as do a few thousand
others.
So it may be best for Rev to keep focusing on honing the engine for
the business tasks currently asked of it, while the Handheld
Platform Wars play themselves out for at least another year.
--
Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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