Just to get a feel for what the numbers might mean I did this little bit of math:
Six months (assuming 30 days per month) is 180 days.
1,500,000 Android phones sold divided by 180 days = 8,333 phones sold per day?
Obviously the challenge is to maintain this high rate of sale for WP7 - I think in six months these phones are going to be a little stale.
I work for a university and we have an iPhone app in the App Store. In fact we are several versions deep on our iPhone app. The development for iPhone is not "rather nice" in my opinion. Objective C is not standard anywhere but Apple. Existing C++ skills don't translate well. XCode is not a great UI... The list goes on....
Two weekends ago I was going to come in on a Saturday and download the Windows Mobile 7 SDK, and write a WinMo 7 app, but the current WinMo SKD uses a release candidate of VS2010, and I have already installed the release VS2010.
So instead I switched gears and downloaded the Droid SDK and Eclipse. It was a breath of fresh air compared to iPhone development!
Our next mobile application will be for Android.
I was charged with writing POS software where I work.
What is the maximum penalty for writting Piece Of Shit software? Is there a prison term associated with this? Where you able to defeat the charge in a court of law?
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Just to get a feel for what the numbers might mean I did this little bit of math: Six months (assuming 30 days per month) is 180 days. 1,500,000 Android phones sold divided by 180 days = 8,333 phones sold per day? Obviously the challenge is to maintain this high rate of sale for WP7 - I think in six months these phones are going to be a little stale.
I just installed a java update this morning - and the real eyebrow raiser was that it wanted to install the BING toolbar...
I work for a university and we have an iPhone app in the App Store. In fact we are several versions deep on our iPhone app. The development for iPhone is not "rather nice" in my opinion. Objective C is not standard anywhere but Apple. Existing C++ skills don't translate well. XCode is not a great UI... The list goes on.... Two weekends ago I was going to come in on a Saturday and download the Windows Mobile 7 SDK, and write a WinMo 7 app, but the current WinMo SKD uses a release candidate of VS2010, and I have already installed the release VS2010. So instead I switched gears and downloaded the Droid SDK and Eclipse. It was a breath of fresh air compared to iPhone development! Our next mobile application will be for Android.
I was charged with writing POS software where I work.
What is the maximum penalty for writting Piece Of Shit software? Is there a prison term associated with this? Where you able to defeat the charge in a court of law?
I for one welcome our filtering overlords... there i said it
Actually this would be closer to The Gamesters of Triskelion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gamesters_of_Triskelion
"The landing party is fitted with metal collars that deliver severe pain if they disobey instructions"