Yet another write once run everywhere platform is released
By Stefan Constantinescu on Monday, April 16th, 2007 at 12:23 AM PST In Random
I may be the only person wishing a quick and painless death of the Nokia PC Suite, but the question about how the next version should be written always looms above my head.
At first I thought it should be a website.
No, no, not powerful enough.
Adobe Apollo?
A lot more appealing.
Well today Microsoft just announced SilverLight. It’s the new marketing term for what us geeks have been calling Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere (WPF/E) for a little over a year.
People always say that "phones are limited by small screen sizes." I don’t buy into this theory. Phones are supposed to be small.
I’m thinking about this problem from another angle: Accessing and manipulating the data on your mobile device should be easier and require fewer steps.
In the same way that I can read Engadget anywhere due to it’s RSS feed, I should have access to my contacts, documents, images, calender data and text messages on any device connected to the net.
All the ingredients are there: Python for S60 gives you access to all the important S60 API’s. Project Raccoon is Apache on your mobile device so now your data can be sent anywhere. Now we have Adobe Apollo and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) SilverLight that are redefining what an application is and where it will be running.
My only problem is who is going to build this?
Yet every where on the interweb folks keep drumming the “MS aren’t innovative” chant. Oh well.
As for this whole web application idea, I’m not so entirely on board. all that private data flying exclusively through some hacker’s box unsettles me. Its like the dependence on digital controls, its better to have a redundancy of analog/physical backup controls.
Dont get me wrong, i like the idea, but we shouldn’t rush blindly without a truly secure back end.