Just had a quick play with Android. Looks pretty slick. Very easy to get up and running and the integration with eclipse is cool. However, a few things....
1. An emulator not a simulator? Its not running ARM code so its hard to get much performance data from this. However, even still the old red CPU bar seemed to get pretty high pretty quick pretty regulary.
2. Security? What is the process for determining what an application can do? Can an app just make a GPRS connection withuot asking the user? Maybe there is a java thingy to do this, Im a c++ guy so I dont know these things.
All in all, good work. But I'll wait til I see it on a board or a phone.
I'm going to leave the Symbian bashing to one side and try to talk about google. They have a great search engine, full marks. But they won that market because no one else cared about search at the time. No one else was trying to make a better search engine, the competition was poor. But they still went in and did it, spotted the market and did a bloody good job. But they are entering a whole new arena here. This is a different ballgame. They can't just release a load of beta code to a handset manufacturer and see how they get on with it.
It's true, they dont do customer support, but thats not difficult to change. But thats the point - they will have to change. The way google work will not work in this industry. Thats what Symbian are trying to say in quite an arragont manner, admitedly. Can they adapt the way they work? Well, most likely. They have the money, they have the drive and they have the people. They will probably give it a good go, but it wont happen overnight.
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Just had a quick play with Android. Looks pretty slick. Very easy to get up and running and the integration with eclipse is cool. However, a few things.... 1. An emulator not a simulator? Its not running ARM code so its hard to get much performance data from this. However, even still the old red CPU bar seemed to get pretty high pretty quick pretty regulary. 2. Security? What is the process for determining what an application can do? Can an app just make a GPRS connection withuot asking the user? Maybe there is a java thingy to do this, Im a c++ guy so I dont know these things. All in all, good work. But I'll wait til I see it on a board or a phone.
I'm going to leave the Symbian bashing to one side and try to talk about google. They have a great search engine, full marks. But they won that market because no one else cared about search at the time. No one else was trying to make a better search engine, the competition was poor. But they still went in and did it, spotted the market and did a bloody good job. But they are entering a whole new arena here. This is a different ballgame. They can't just release a load of beta code to a handset manufacturer and see how they get on with it. It's true, they dont do customer support, but thats not difficult to change. But thats the point - they will have to change. The way google work will not work in this industry. Thats what Symbian are trying to say in quite an arragont manner, admitedly. Can they adapt the way they work? Well, most likely. They have the money, they have the drive and they have the people. They will probably give it a good go, but it wont happen overnight.