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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Matt on Wednesday 25 February 2009 19:19 : \____
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>>> http://research.bizreport.com/detail/RES/1223051748_99.html
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>>>
>>>> Overcoming Mobile Fragmentation: Building Applications for Multiple
>>>> Operating Systems sponsored by Recursion Software, Inc.
>>>> ABSTRACT:
>>>> There is a mobile war brewing among industry heavyweights that is pitting
>>>> Android (Google), against Windows (Microsoft), Symbian (Nokia) against
>>>> iPhone (Apple). While on the surface this stiff competition appears to
>>>> benefit consumers, for developers it's a growing nightmare to build
>>>> applications that run on these different operating systems and try to
>>>> maintain some degree of compatibility and interoperability. The problem
>>>> intensifies when you consider applications should ideally span not only
>>>> phones, but MIDs, UMPCs, cars (telematics) and other embedded and wearable
>>>> computing devices. Pervasive is the new Mobile. A single platform that
>>>> spans all "Screens of Life" would truly be something to behold. This paper
>>>> discusses some of the challenges and trade-offs developers must make and
>>>> highlights one solution to overcoming them.
>>>> Posted: 03 Oct 2008
>>>> Published: 03 Oct 2008
>>>> Format: PDF
>>>> Length: 10 Page(s)
>>>> Type: White Paper
>>>> Language: English
>>>
>>> You have to register to download it (free).
>>
>> This PR[opaganda] piece was written at the behest of a company that
>> exaggerates the problem in order to profit from its own solution (see <
>> recursionsw.com
>>> ). So how valid is this 'study'?
>>
>> - --
>> ~~ Best of wishes
>
>
> Okay, I haven't read it, and maybe their solution is wrong, but I'm not
> sure how it's possible to exaggerate the problem.
Accentuating existing issues is easy, assuming you have reasons for doing so.
Each thing has pros and cons and you could assess it differently by placing
different empphasis on (or assigning different weights to) each component on
either side.
Microsoft's "Get the Facts" is a good (or bad rather) example.
- --
~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | Open the Gate$ to Hell
http://Schestowitz.com | GNU is Not UNIX | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
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