Adobe Aquires PhoneGap

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Post by radley » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 5:11 PM UTC

Re: Adobe Aquires PhoneGap

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Post by ojbyrne » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 5:29 PM UTC

This title seems misleading (and doesn't match the one currently on techcrunch). Adobe acquired Nitobi, the makers of PhoneGap. PhoneGap itself seems to have been "donated" to the Apache foundation.

EDIT: fixed stupid brain fart.

Re: Adobe Aquires PhoneGap

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Post by citizenkeys » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 5:46 PM UTC

PhoneGap has rightfully become the de facto standard for cross-platform mobile development.

If anybody knows a PhoneGap-like platform for MacOS development, please let me know.

Re: Adobe Aquires PhoneGap

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Post by budu3 » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 5:52 PM UTC

ojbyrne wrote: post #2

This title seems misleading (and doesn't match the one currently on techcrunch). Adobe acquired Nitobi, the makers of PhoneGap. PhoneGap itself seems to have been "donated" to the Apache foundation. EDIT: fixed stupid brain fart.

I think you meant to say Adobe.

Re: Adobe Aquires PhoneGap

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Post by bergie » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 6:12 PM UTC

This is cool. Thanks to the Day Software acquisition a while back, Adobe has quite a bit of things done on the open via Apache Software Foundation. JackRabbit, Tika, and now PhoneGap.

It also signals they're taking the web standards more seriously (PhoneGap mostly tracks the W3C Device API specs)

Re: Adobe Aquires PhoneGap

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Post by deweller » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 6:42 PM UTC

Adobe is acquiring Nitobi. PhoneGap (the project) is being submitted for acceptance as an Apache Software Foundation project: Here's the Google Groups discussion:

http://groups.google.com/group/phonegap-dev/browse_thread/th...

Re: Adobe Aquires PhoneGap

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Post by drewda » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 7:29 PM UTC

citizenkeys wrote: post #3

PhoneGap has rightfully become the de facto standard for cross-platform mobile development. If anybody knows a PhoneGap-like platform for MacOS development, please let me know.

Appcelerator Titanium can produce desktop apps for Mac OS (among many other platforms): http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-desktop-applic...

Re: Adobe Aquires PhoneGap

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Post by zerostar07 » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 9:13 PM UTC

Looks like a great talent acquisition. PhoneGap is a temporary (albeit, dragging on for years) solution. How long before the browsers adopt a common interface for mobile capabilities that will render phonegap obsolete...

Re: Adobe Aquires PhoneGap

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Post by curt » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 11:05 PM UTC

With the death of Flash, for front-end web development, likely right around the corner this is a great strategic move by Adobe to stay relevant.

Maybe they'll create an XCode like tool for HTML5 using PhoneGap as the glue. With the acquisition of TypeKit it really looks like that's the direction they are heading in. Would be an interesting and useful product.

Re: Adobe Aquires PhoneGap

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Post by AndreCharland » Tue, Oct 04, 2011, 4:49 AM UTC

citizenkeys wrote: post #3

PhoneGap has rightfully become the de facto standard for cross-platform mobile development. If anybody knows a PhoneGap-like platform for MacOS development, please let me know.

check this out: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-mac