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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 03 2012 @ 08:43 PM EDT |
I don't agree. Nokia is using Windows. And why would anyone in their right
mind think about using Windows on a phone? SO YOU CAN USE THE SAME APIS.
Blackberry uses some flavor of Java, at least it's one of the options.
The iPhone uses ObjectiveC, which is the same that Macs use.
Off the top of my head, I don't know of any smart phone that *doesn't* re-use a
"known" environment.
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Authored by: pem on Thursday, May 03 2012 @ 10:31 PM EDT |
That's just circular reasoning.
Google set out to create a functionally compatible platform for well-known and
well-discussed reasons. According to everything we've ever been taught,
functionality, to the extent that it can be protected, is protected by patents,
not copyrights.
If Google had to copy the API in order to make the platform functionally
compatible (which they did), then the API shouldn't be protected by copyright.
To my knowledge, only one court has ruled otherwise, and that ruling was brought
up by Oracle, but has been roundly criticized by practically every observer.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 11:16 AM EDT |
Most sucessful "new" platforms "lean" on something already
well known.
Apple on their macosx, microsoft on their win32/mfc in WinMo and
Dot.Net/Silverlight on WinPho. Even blackberry used the extended JavaME variant
as basis.
On the other hand, Palm created something "unique" and failed to
attract developers.
As for support for already written programs, the answer is: hell yes.
For example, if I want to write some Android Mail client, I can for example
reuse already existing and well known Mime4J (written for Java) and be done
instead of redoing this from scratch. Etc etc.
Otherwise I would wonder if I should develop for android at all. Since
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