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 GuspazGuspazPremium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
kudos:16 | reply to GlobalMind
Re: Looks good so far I'm uncertain about their approach to applications, though. Doing everything as local web-apps is fine, especially if you make a rich API available to apps to let them interact with the device. However, this immediately rules out a large number of performance-intensive applications. Third-party audio and video players (doing decoding themselves)? Anything that manipulates an audio or video feed? Anything but basic games? Any kind of emulation? There are so many types of applications that the Pre just won't be able to handle without some sort of access to native code (or at least J2ME).
I believe I did hear that there were plans to introduce an additional display layer to give access to lower level languages, though, so that'd pretty much erase all my complaints. | |
 GlobalMindDomino Dude, POWER Systems GuyPremium
join:2001-10-29
Hollywood, FL | said by Guspaz:I'm uncertain about their approach to applications, though.... Yea I'd agree with your comments overall. Granted this is pretty new but I think what I see that's promising is that they're making a point right up front to say "look, we're not totally locking thing thing down."
Basd on what they've said, some additional avenues are likely to come available such as that other display layer.
We'll see. | |
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