Mobile Linux Group Releases First Specification

narramissic writes "Google's Android may be getting all the headlines, but the venerable LiPS (Linux Phone Standards Forum), which launched to much fanfare in 2005, is rolling out the specs. The group, comprised of companies including Orange, France Telecom, MontaVista, and Access, announced Monday that it has completed the first release of its mobile Linux specification, adding components including APIs for telephony, messaging, calendar, instant messaging, and presence functions, as well as new user interface components."

Comments

My grandmother can't use Linux

[Malevolent Tester]

Admittedly, the fact that she's been dead 15 years probably doesn't help.

Re:Too little, too late

[Daniel Phillips]

Well, me... I'm personally holding out for a Python API. Python is really good for RAD work, and well, I gotta tell you, I don't have time for traditional development methods these days. Python is easy and quick. And that's how mobile app development should be -- you should be able to write apps on the go! If Python had a decent native code compiler I would consider it for more applications. It is good for rapid development, yes I've experienced that, but it is cryingly, mind numbingly slow, which really hurts in any application that needs to think the slightest bit hard.