Posts Tagged with ‘android’

Only yesterday in a post describing some of the best and worst parts of Apple App Store for and the distribution system Apple built for iPhone content and applications that can be used as lessons by Google for Android, I mentioned that one of the best parts is that iTunes offers a broad range of content where users can go shopping not only when they are determined to buy an application - but even when they look to buy a [...]

There’s been quite some talk around the blogosphere and mainstream over the weekend related to Apple’s iPhone App Store - the good and the bad sides, prospects it offers to applications developers and alternative ways for developers to distribute their apps when not admitted by Apple. And since the next week will be sure to become the week of big Android news with Tuesday’s T-Mobile announcement I have decided to summarize a few conclusions we can arrive to after a [...]

"Android Developers Revolt." "Android Developers Flee to iPhone Platform."
The headlines on tech blogs lately are starting to read like supermarket tabloids, so I dug a little bit deeper to see if all the smoke has a fire behind it. What did I find?
Yes, there is a petition asking for more information from Google. Yes, I read it. But here's what it looks like to me: a vocal minority of Android Developers are frustrated and comparing the Android development process to [...]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Android is delayed until sometime in the fourth quarter, and some cell phone manufacturers aren't even going to be able to get an Android phone out until 2009. The original Android announcement from last November suggested that phones would be out by the second half of this year. I suppose November 2008 is technically the second half, but a late T-Mobile launch is allegedly pushing back a Sprint-Nextel launch until 2009. China Mobile [...]

The launch of the iPhone (shortly followed by the iPod Touch) seemed to fuel developer's desires to create mobile-specific web applications despite the device's ability to access the entire internet (without the WAP/WML limitations of most mobile devices). Many mobile web users find the wireless application protocol (WAP) too restrictive and slow, greatly limiting what WAP browsers can access on the internet. On the other hand, all mobile devices (even the iPhone) have small screens and excessive scrolling can be [...]

Right from Google's initial launch of Android, I've been curious about what the overall plan was for the product. After all, Google sank an enormous amount of money into its development, and judging from the blogs of Java developers that I read, a pretty good amount of time as well. It seemed an awfully big project to have launched without the usual amount of Google fanfare, and it was coming fairly late in the game, with Symbian, Windows Mobile, and [...]

Just a week or so following its first official acknowledgement of plans to deliver (through the newly founded Open Handset Alliance) its much-hyped mobile platform, Google today released its Android software developer kit (SDK). The company is inviting Windows, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu Linux users/developers alike to participate and build applications for distribution through the OHA.
Big news, eh? The cat’s now literally out of the bag.
Or something like that. Google is of course hoping to spark the [...]

There’s a great deal of talk surrounding recent news coming out of Mountain View as of late. Understandably so. In the last week or so, we’ve seen revealed a number of grand projects by Google: one having to do with the development of an open Web platform, dubbed OpenSocial; another having to do with a software-specific mobile project. (Yesterday, Google publicly divulged the outline of that mobile project, now known as the Open Handset Alliance.)
And there’s also been ample chatter [...]