Disqus
The runtime platform wars have begun, just like I predicted in my rebuttal to Mr. Mace’s article:
“Microsoft with Silverlight on the Desktop and soon to be Silverlight on Mobile will be joining the already under utilized .Net Compact Framework on Windows Mobile devices. Adobe with AIR for the Desktop and soon Air for Mobile will join Flash Lite which is deployed on numerous platforms. Nokia purchased Trolltech to enable Qt on all their devices: S40, S60 and Maemo. The Mobile Application space is not dead, but the classic definition of what it is to be a Mobile Application is changing.”
What will Adobe announce at MIX? What will Nokia, if anything, say at MIX? Time will tell, but the runtime platform wars have officially begun with Microsoft pledging to bring their bits to all of Nokia’s devices. This is the next step in the race towards one mobile platform for developing. Sure there will be multiple operating systems, hell there may even be more than one runtime, but pretty soon the industry is going to demand a set of standards so that web services can interact with the hardware. Sun tried it with J2ME, that obviously didn’t work, but something tells me the industry will get it right the second time around.
[Via: Nokia PR, All About Symbian]
About The Author
Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
