Google must woo mobile app developers

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Android isn't for current mobile developers: The opinions of people currently developing mobile apps are not the ones we should be interested in. The point of Android is to recruit the vast body of desktop Linux developers to develop mobile apps and not for existing mobile apps to get ported -- Google should be (and is) wooing desktop developers to program for the hand-held. Current mobile app developers should see Andriod as a threat: their specialized knowledge could be somewhat de-valued should a platform emerge that is familiar to desktop developers and with an easy build environment. This is, of course, critical to advancing the platform -- for an example, think how the richness of the web advanced with the introduction of successively-simpler scripting languages. From C-language compiled CGIs and arcane Unix shell scripts to servlets, jsp, and asp to PHP and Python, the barrier to entry for server-side programming has been declining. If you had asked CGI programmers in the 1990s how they felt about the introduction of server-side Java, you would also have gotten a negative reaction, and if in 2000 you asked Java developers how they felt about PHP and Python, they would also have reacted negatively.

Of course, this could also be the event that triggers a hypergrowth event in mobile development and developers with a history in the space could have an easy ride to management positions.; Posted by: pete@... Posted on: 11/08/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use