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WebGL is a developing standard for delivering 3D content inside an HTML5 canvas.
The spec hasn’t reached a 1.0 version yet, but Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome have support we can try out in their nightly builds for the draft version. I had the best luck on both Linux and OSX in trying out WebGL by using firefox nightly builds. There are several documents out there to help you try it… see here,
Google Search, Google Ads, Google Phones, Google Browser, Google Netbooks, Google Tablets, Google TVs, then what?
Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering for Google, suggested during Google I/O conference that Google’s entrance into the mobile phone market was a move meant to directly oppose the likes of Apple and its tightly controlled iPhone platform.
“If Google did not act, we faced a Draconian future where one man, one company, one device, one carrier would be our only choice,” Gundotra said. “That’s a future we don’t want.”
Really? Or the future Google doesn’t want is one in which they don’t control the ad networks fully? Aren’t they entering every market in which advertising is a crucial part of the picture?
It doesn’t matter if people understand your business model or not… if you sell a million of anything in 28 days, the competition will soon be clawing to get into the game. Apple is seeing some potential for competition.
The other tablets are coming in a few classes of devices.
Several models will run Windows 7. While I think that will represent something useful for some people, it remains to be seen how tablet-friendly Windows 7 software will become. On top of
Many people don’t give a second thought to the idea that you can upgrade your laptop or desktop computer to a newer operating system, even an OS from a different vendor, down the road. It’s a completely different story for mobiles. The roots of the problem are in the specialized hardware that mobiles have. The hardware manufacturer has to be on board when you want to release new firmware specifically for that mobile.
Apple’s consolidated mobile product line and tight control
I wrote an introductory post a while back that gave a brief overview of the three main cross-platform mobile development frameworks. At that time, Rhodes was definitely the leading solution in terms of features and support of several different platforms, while Titanium was still in a pre-release state and presented an uncertain future in terms of licensing. PhoneGap was a nice solution, but didn’t feel ready for prime time.
Our platform of choice has been Rhodes.
Things are changing very fast though, and nowadays we’re considering the best approach on a project-by-project basis.
Appcelerator Titanium is one of the 3 cross-platform mobile frameworks (the other 2 are Rhodes and PhoneGap). Similar to PhoneGap, it exposes devices capabilites through Javascript and you write your app using HTML, CSS and of course, Javascript. What really sets Titanium apart is its user interface API: you can use Javascript to create table views or other specific user interface controls. This leads to the best replication of the native look & feel.
OK… sorry about the inflammatory title, but it really does feel like MS has been coasting since it came out with its first mobile software release. I’ve used Windows Mobile on two Dell Axim revs and two cellphones. Instead of feeling like each new OS revision was an upgrade, it just felt like the same thing with a few more applications included and a few more options in settings. Before that
Could Apple bet on the App Store revenues and licensing revenues and give away the iPhone OS to third parties?
Will we ever see a Motorola or HTC built phone running the iPhone OS? Will we ever see inexpensive chinese phones running it?… Let’s see what that would mean to Apple.
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