Re:Palm did it: better experience than Apple
by gtufano on Friday January 09, 2009 @06:29PM
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Wonderful! I always dreamed of programming phones in HTML/CSS/JS. This is a great step forward from C/C++/ObjC. Joking, of course... but this seems to me the way for trivial apps, given the constraint in a phone-sized OS.
I hope to be wrong. Palm has been my first (useful) PDA...
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Re:Palm did it: better experience than Apple
by lallysingh on Saturday January 10, 2009 @12:55AM
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While it'd be way more difficult to write the next office clone in this stack, the vast majority of apps we see on mobile devices are frontends to web data, calculators, or databases of some sort. In those cases, I think these APIs might be just about perfect.
Perhaps they'll provide ways to extend out the javascript APIs (e.g. native code modules) later.
Re:Palm did it: better experience than Apple
by jemmons on Saturday January 10, 2009 @01:08AM
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The vast majority of apps we saw on mobile devices, you mean. Then the iPhone and Android-based phones came along. If simple frontends are what the Pre plans to focus on, then Palm is still fighting the last war.
Re:Palm did it: better experience than Apple
by bonaldi on Saturday January 10, 2009 @07:34AM
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Games aside, there's hardly anything on the App Store that couldn't be done in webOS. It's not just "local webpages" -- the SMS and phone apps are written in it, after all.
I think if the choice was between a third all-new alien SDK and luring developers in with HTML+JS, Palm made the right choice.