Peter Wayner of InfoWorld has put Palm's still brand new webOS Mojo SDK through its paces, and came away impressed. Still, there are a number of issues that need to be addressed, but all in all the big advantage he sees is that over the course of the past few weeks, a very active and fertile community of developers has organically created its own development community, creating open source applications everybody is free to install - contrary to the iPhone.
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2009-07-20
From the article I gather that developers will be restricted in the amount of access they have to the hardware?
...and should they get full access to the OS, will they be able to use Palms 'phone home' capabilities, such as the alleged location information?
What is this smoke screen about 'loads of developers who know javascript having access to building applications'? I can build applications with jQuery, but I can do that using a web application. What do I gain being a Pre developer?
just listen to the bs you are spouting:
"a very active and fertile community of developers has organically created its own development community"
what the hell does that mean? Organic, fertile developers?
Don't you realise that this sounds like corporate nonsense talk in reverse and most embarrassing?
And what about the "Google Voice being available" when it is also available on the iPhone as a web service?
Where is the beef?
Personally I come to believe this is a load of rubbish, you get a web OS to play with but no real control over hardware nor OS unless you hack. Please explain if I am wrong. Please explain how the Web OS compares to Android or iPhone OS in as far as the access to the full capabilities of OS and hardware is concerned.
Oh, and then you don't have a Palm Pre because it's not out yet where you live... ah never mind.
Edited 2009-08-13 01:37 UTC
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2005-07-08
Maybe the title of my comment is not correct and it should read Palm,Apple,Google. In very related news,Pre is sending to Palm info about your location and user info. Apple's bad? Sure. Would be nice if the SDK will allow access to the functions sending this info to Palm so that developers will disable them. Only then Palm is better than Apple.
http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/Palm_Pre_privacy/
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2009-07-08
I am not a web developer nor do I have a Palm Pre.
I think this is what the all the html5 people are going to eventually face. Here we have an os that all the apps are written in html+js but then you have people complaining that there is no opengl and other like libraries. Shouldn't they be jumping at the chance at using 3d css+js libs? What happened to the 'everything a app can do you can do in html+js' war cries? When it comes down to it, there will almost always be an os under the web rendering platform. It will provide hook's into the hardware to provide audio video and opengl through complied libs stored in hardware provided that some web dev doesn't decide to roll his own version of the lib for what ever reason. I see this as a small test bed for the future of what the html5 proponents are championing, and it doesn't seem to be going well.
