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Interview of Danger (Sidekick II) CEO Hank Nothhaft

Posted by michael on from the danger-will-robinson dept.

r-blo writes "Know that new T-Mobile Sidekick II that Paris Hilton and Derek Jeter have been totin' around town? Yeah, that one. Well, Engadget has an interview with Danger's (the company that makes the Sidekick) CEO, Hank Nothhaft, talking about all manner of things regarding the mobile-internet device, including its closed development environment. They even ask him what phone he'd buy if it wasn't a Sidekick II, gotta love that!"

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  1. Form factor by keiferb · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What, if any, plans are there to reduce the size of the device? An iPod is about the biggest thing I can stand to carry around in my pocket. I'd like to get one of the hiptops, but I'd rather not need a fanny-pack to carry it.

  2. advertorial alert by SethJohnson · · Score: 2, Interesting



    The submitter of this story, r-blo, has never posted any messages, but has submitted two stories-- both of which were accepted. My guess is that the sidekick PR dept. bought this story placement from Slashdot and this account has been created for the supposed submission of the placed advertorial...

    The other story r-blo submitted was probably paid for by Tivo's pr department.

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  3. Before you think about buying this... by LnxAddct · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Read this, the beginning tells you how cool the device it, but the ending is rather startling Here.
    Regards,
    Steve

  4. Re:I'd like to be a fan of Danger, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Errr.. I could only surmize you are a troll, or you just didn't really spend much time with the platform, because I couldn't disagree more.

    First let's get rid of the plain old wrong assertions you make:

    1) You can't save apps you made to the phone. Duh, type % loader save. Boom, things are saved over reboots. Been that way forever, guess you didn't dig very deep.

    2) Resources. Oh what a crybaby, admitedly the drc system they use isn't the most streamline in the world, but if you can't handle defining a variable in one place and referencing it in another you shouldn't be programming. You also realize the entire point of their system is to allow for internationalization right from the front instead of as an afterthought?

    3) Syncing. If you really were a developer, you would have seen that Danger offerend syncing to developers over a year ago and it works like a charm. Unfortunately t-mobile didn't allow it on their main servers for whatever reason, but word is that will change for SKII.

    3) API. Their API rules. Yes, they only support certain PNG formats, that's hardly a big deal to work around. What you get in return is a really easy to use and awesome looking API for a phone with always on internet. Writing apps for this thing is a joy, it's amazing what kind of stuff you can crank out with very little code.

    I've developed a Jabber client, a FICS chess client, and a scraping application like AvantGo on it and I've found it really powerful and extremely easy to develop on.

    What I will agree on is that the build quality for the SK and CSK was below par. Rumors are the new device solves these problems.

    But your rant is off base on most of those points.