It’s a hard knock life being a mobile app developer. Even worse if your a mobile app developing company that’s trying to make money offering apps that work across the many Smartphone platforms that are now available.
I might be dreaming but I can see a significant business opportunity in developing a standard for the next wave of Smartphones to comply to which offer a standardized SDK so mobile platform developers can develop their apps once and only once and people constrained to using an iPhone or an Android phone don’t have to worry about the app being unavailable to them.It would be beneficial for everybody.
In the ideal world the companies manufacturing the Smartphones would make donations to a group to develop the standards and SDK’s rather than having to spend a much larger sum internally to develop the standards and SDK’s themselves.
But that would be too logical for the competitive firestorm happening now between the major Smartphone manufacturers as they might see it as a loss of competitive edge. Sorry for getting the rest of you mobile developers all hard and stuff but it looks like we’re all stuck in the real world together for now.
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