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Best Platform For Hobbyist Mobile Development?

Posted by kdawson on from the joy-of-programming dept.

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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  1. Mostly useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not only is it not well written, many of the platforms are there just for show, as he knows nothing about them.

    Examples:

    iPhone

    It's not clear he's developed for it. He spends his time whining about the closed SDK, which is valid enough, but could have simply said "Apple doesn't welcome outside developers currently". And left it off.

    Blackberry

    I can just quote him

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

    Brew

    And here:

    Brew as a platform is great but its not a platform for a hobbyist programmer. The tools are "supposed to be good. I have never directly worked on a brew project so cannot say much about it."

    Linux

    (goes off boring us about his dislike of GPL (fine, but out of place). And then finally gets to the matter

    (His JavaME and Windows Mobile coverage is decentish)

  2. What is this garbage doing on the front page? by JanusFury · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This article contains less information than you'd get from 5 minutes of google searches on the names of the various technologies. Why reward such haphazardly written articles with frontpage coverage and ad impressions?

    The author's few actual opinions about technologies are equally worthless; his rambling about Palm and J2ME makes it clear that he's never actually used the technology for more than a few minutes, and the ranting about Linux's license and the hassle of 'signing' applications makes you wonder if he's ever written any software at all. Someone who considers the Java Mobile API 'beyond him' probably shouldn't be writing articles about programming.

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