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Adobe Aquires PhoneGap

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Re: Adobe Aquires PhoneGap

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Post by AndreCharland » Tue, Oct 04, 2011, 4:55 AM UTC

bergie wrote: post #5

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)

they definitely are and I'm excited to be a part of it:)

Re: Adobe Aquires PhoneGap

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Post by AndreCharland » Tue, Oct 04, 2011, 4:56 AM UTC

zerostar07 wrote: post #8

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...

well I'd look at the community building around PhoneGap Plugins for your answer there. I do agree that many of the standard APIs (which we lead/follow W3C on) will be in most mobile browsers in the coming years.

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