Best Platform For Hobbyist Mobile Development?

An anonymous reader notes a blog entry, possibly his own, comparing and evaluating 8 mobile platforms from the point of view of their suitability for a hobbyist programmer. Covered are iPhone, Java ME, Windows Mobile, Linux, Palm, Brew, Symbian, and Blackberry. The writer seems open-minded and is a strong fan of free software, but he gives the edge to Windows Mobile for this class of developer.

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Strong fan of free software???

[DrJimbo]

From the summary:

The writer seems open-minded and is a strong fan of free software, ..

From TFA:

I've always had a love hate relationship with Linux. I love it 'cause its a great platform for learning but I hate the licensing.

Coming next to Slashdot: up is down and black is white.

Re:Strong fan of free software???

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

Yeah, if you read the rest of the sentence, he goes on to say he prefers BSD. But, on the whole, its pretty lame. I think he spent close to an hour with google, before writing it.

Not just J2ME

[clarkkent09]

You know, I did some J2EE development recently (after not touching Java for a while) and I thought I was learning a new language (and I don't mean a programming language): J2EE, J2SE, J2ME, JAF, JMS, JATO, JSF, JSS, JTA, JTS, JAXM, JAXP, JSS, JSSE... (if I got some of them wrong, no big deal, the way things are going they will be correct eventually).

How many different 3 letter combinations starting with J can still be available?

P.S please don't work it out, it was a rhetorical question

Re:Mostly useless

[neersign]

Blackberry

Next comes the blackberry, I have no idea about this as a programming platform so cannot say much about the SDK support.

oblig. Billy Madison quote: We are all dumber for having listened to you. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Re:Badly written

[WED Fan]

He's apparently never heard of the comma. The article is frustrating to read.

its a if everyone who ever instant messaged were students of ee cummings with a bad lsd and grammer trip thrown and we are all reading 2 page long sentences written by faulkner because our english teachers said he was one of the worlds greatest writers when all we wanted to do was pass with some semblance of knowing what the class was about so we could get on with our technical careers and forget that we were subjected to the torture of keats and poe while would have rather been reading the articles in playboy right like that is what the magazine is for cause dude i go to the web and read news papers and never look at pr0n because my boss would kill me as i try to hammer out code for his new gizmo gadget toy of a phone that can do everything but place a decent call on a decent cell service even though the prices are so freaking high you would think that there quality would be fantastic and right now im thinking that someone is looking for a hidden message in all this but there is no message i didnt bury paul and im am not a knight in satans service but i do own a jack russel terrier and that is one wired dog and is only out done by my border collie thank god weve got a miniature schnauzer now that is a dog that is even tempered and is happy just sitting in the room looking at me staring at me penetrating my brain with those ineffable eyes leaving me wonder what he is thinking what is that dog looking at damn the cat just knocked down my wifes roses and is now eating their leaves

Typical Indian "developer" !!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Can't believe that this made the front page of Slashdot! Absolutely no content to see here. What a total waste of my time and bandwidth!

Typical of most "developers" I have encountered in India ... thinks he knows everything, but in fact knows nothing.

I guess now he will add "journalism" to his resumé!