[ale] First look at Winders 8

[Charles Shapiro]

Heh. I am currently exploring Android development.  It's been most
interesting so far.  So far Android strikes me as a great content-delivery
mechanism, but I shudder to think of trying to learn how to code from it.

Java is not a good pedagogical language, and a whole lot of Android
development seems to involve implied content -- in order to create screens,
for example, you really should learn a whole XML-based language which is
separate from Java.    After working through a real simple application on
the command line, I figure my only way to manage the complexity is with an
IDE, so I'm now trying to work out Eclipse, which has its _own_ learning
curve.

So heck, maybes this is the Way the World will Go, and us happy
hard-workin' coders will merely be weird old fossils in a universe of
sunglasses-wearing HTML writers.

-- CHS

-- CHS



On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 12/25/2012 09:55 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> Being a content sucking device maker works for apple. So much so they make
> more money from dribbling content than selling the sucking devices.
> So mickeysoft wants to suck like the bitten fruit company.
> Here's to more fully open source, drm free hardware makers.
> On Dec 25, 2012 7:45 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  Passing through the airport yesterday I got a look at Microsoft's new
>> marketing push for Windows 8.  The droids there had never heard of Gorilla
>> Arm ( http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html ) and could tell me
>> nothing at all about developing for it. They claimed that development tools
>> would debut some time in January. Microsoft appears to have abandoned its
>> interest in corporate computing and tried to position windows solely as a
>> content delivery service.  Baffling.
>>
>>  -- CHS
>>
>>   From what I have read Microsloth has forgotten that content must be
> produced to be consumed. Also, M$ apparently has bought the hype "the PC is
> dead", not realizing the desktop and full laptop are very good devices for
> both creating and consuming content while the other devices are very poor
> at creation because of UI limitations. Also, the PC market is a mature
> market in many countries where market growth is mostly coming from economic
> and population growth not from a large untapped reservoir of users. I
> suspect the tablet and smartphone market will reach maturity faster than
> expected since they are partially based on replacing cellphones (another
> relatively mature market) with a more capable device. The only way some
> people will get a smartphone or tablet device instead of a cellphone is
> when the price of the former drops so low that they may as well as buy one
> and cellphones are relatively cheap.
>
> I wonder how many people if they can only afford one major computing
> device will opt for a PC and not a tablet or smartphone?
>
> --
> Jay Lozierjslozier at gmail.com
>
>
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