Sprint and Palm are surely very positive about the success of the Palm Pre, and their optimism certainly is not baseless. The Palm Pre is yet to be released, but some of the developers of applications for the phone have already started singing serenades for the Palm Pre.
NetworkWorld has interviewed several app developers working on the Palm Pre's operating system, called webOS and the companion software development kit, Mojo. NetworkWorld has found that some developers are really excited about the phone, but some iota of developers are not at all interested in developing for the Palm Pre and webOS.
According to the developers standing for the Palm Pre, there are three things that make the phone stand apart from the others; the three things are that the phone based on the well-known JavaScript language, it can run several applications at once, and thirdly, it is easier to use.
"It's a completely new way of thinking about an OS on mobile devices. webOS has fully embraced the notion of applications running at the same time, as PCs do. You can now write applications that are more complex," says Christian Sepulveda, vice president of business development at Pivotal Labs.
Tom Conrad, Pandora's CTO, says, "It's the combination of these kinds of capabilities that excites developers. Palm started with a clean sheet of paper. Everything about the Pre feels like it's 'future-oriented,' not an iPhone-inspired knockoff."
"Your application is running as though it were a kind of series of dynamic Web pages in an embedded browser. It's not compiled into 'non-Web code.' It executes within a true Web environment," Conrad adds.
"With Mojo, we were up to speed in weeks. The barriers for entry for developing on Mojo are very low," says Agile Commerce: Partner Eric Marthinsen.
Palm webOS is Linux-based operating system developed by Palm for the Pre smartphone. According to NetworkWorld, "The potential power of webOS lies in three capabilities that Palm has brought together into a coherent whole. First, mobile applications are written entirely in JavaScript, HTML and Cascading Style Sheets, which are technologies that an army of Web developers has been using for years. Second, webOS was designed from the outset to run multiple applications at once and, these developers say, to minimize the well-known potential problems that arise when doing so. Third, the application model is designed in turn to fully exploit both these features, creating, these developers say, a simpler, far more intuitive user experience."
From topnews.in
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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