<div dir="ltr"><div>Heh. I am currently exploring Android development. It's been most interesting so far. So far Android strikes me as a great content-delivery mechanism, but I shudder to think of trying to learn how to code from it. <br>
<br>Java is not a good pedagogical language, and a whole lot of Android development seems to involve implied content -- in order to create screens, for example, you really should learn a whole XML-based language which is separate from Java. After working through a real simple application on the command line, I figure my only way to manage the complexity is with an IDE, so I'm now trying to work out Eclipse, which has its _own_ learning curve.<br>
<br></div><div>So heck, maybes this is the Way the World will Go, and us happy hard-workin' coders will merely be weird old fossils in a universe of sunglasses-wearing HTML writers.<br><br></div><div>-- CHS<br></div><div>
<br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Jay Lozier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com" target="_blank">jslozier@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 12/25/2012 09:55 AM, Jim Kinney
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<p>Being a content sucking device maker works for apple. So much
so they make more money from dribbling content than selling the
sucking devices.<br>
So mickeysoft wants to suck like the bitten fruit company. <br>
Here's to more fully open source, drm free hardware makers.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 25, 2012 7:45 AM, "Charles
Shapiro" <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com" target="_blank">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>>
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<div>Passing through the airport yesterday I got a look at
Microsoft's new marketing push for Windows 8. The droids
there had never heard of Gorilla Arm ( <a href="http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html" target="_blank">http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html</a>
) and could tell me nothing at all about developing for
it. They claimed that development tools would debut some
time in January. Microsoft appears to have abandoned its
interest in corporate computing and tried to position
windows solely as a content delivery service. Baffling.<br>
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From what I have read Microsloth has forgotten that content must be
produced to be consumed. Also, M$ apparently has bought the hype
"the PC is dead", not realizing the desktop and full laptop are very
good devices for both creating and consuming content while the other
devices are very poor at creation because of UI limitations. Also,
the PC market is a mature market in many countries where market
growth is mostly coming from economic and population growth not from
a large untapped reservoir of users. I suspect the tablet and
smartphone market will reach maturity faster than expected since
they are partially based on replacing cellphones (another relatively
mature market) with a more capable device. The only way some people
will get a smartphone or tablet device instead of a cellphone is
when the price of the former drops so low that they may as well as
buy one and cellphones are relatively cheap.<br>
<br>
I wonder how many people if they can only afford one major computing
device will opt for a PC and not a tablet or smartphone?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Jay Lozier
<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com" target="_blank">jslozier@gmail.com</a></pre>
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