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Android smartphones continue their meteoric rise







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RE: Open Ecossystems are flourishing.
By johnnycanadian on 5/14/2010 9:29:28 AM , Rating: 4
I'm looking forward to a more refined Android SDK -- I'm really not impressed with the current effort, but given Google's phenomenal push into the market I can't imagine it will take long before it's at least as good as XCode/iPhone.

I have a few apps on the iPhone App Store and would love to continue supporting that platform but Apple's making it extremely difficult to do so. I'm already planning a move over to Android in late summer and although I'm just a tiny development shop (which Apple seemingly doesn't care about any longer), I know I'm not alone. The exodus could really hurt his Steveness' empire, and I can only hope that Android's success will spur Apple to finally become TRULY developer focussed.

RE: Open Ecossystems are flourishing.
By reader1 on 5/14/10, Rating: -1
RE: Open Ecossystems are flourishing.
By johnnycanadian on 5/14/2010 12:47:33 PM , Rating: 5
"Apple needs to make it harder for developers to get an app approved, not easier. Nobody needs 25,000 puzzle games."

Really? Why not let the consumer decide what they want. Apple's responsibility in this matter is to (1) ensure that there's no malicious code on the App Store and (2) make it easier to find what you're looking for.

I'm not a Flash developer, but I'm disgusted that Apple's dictating the development tools one must use in order to obtain App Store approval (in an attempt to retain application exclusivity on the platform). If I want to use Flash, Unity, Appcelerator or just plain XCode Objective-C, let me decide: if the code is poor, customers won't buy it. Simple as that.

RE: Open Ecossystems are flourishing.
By icanhascpu on 5/14/2010 7:03:51 PM , Rating: 2
I dont know, it looks like a minor issue that is just annoying to devs. By keeping their sandbox neat and clean they can lesson the percentage of really bad apps, because even doing that now, I would say 90% of them are bad. If everyone that could make a crap game that had heard of flash before made an app it would be a even bigger mess.

Then again they really need to work on their app search and organization. For a company that made a fantastic search tool like Spotlight years ago, I doubt its beyond their ability. Who knows what they have planned. (besides gizmodo).

All I know is that google selling tons of great smartphones and apple obviously not sitting on their ass about it is good for ALL OF US!

By johnnycanadian on 5/14/2010 11:08:50 PM , Rating: 3
It's difficult to demonstrate that the development tool is directly related to the quality of the app, though. For example, Zombieville USA was made with Unity -- it's superb and has been in top sales lists since release. Stunt Squirrels was made with GameSalad and is beautifully implemented. Talented developers will release great apps no matter what development platform is being used, and conversely you're always going to see crap from not-so-talented folks, again no matter the platform.

Note that I'm not involved with either of the above mentioned projects in any way.

