Maybe it's prejudice, but I feel uneasy with their connection with Telefonica, after seeing so many Spanish users (including some family members) complain about them
Open Web Device
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#12Me gusta!
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#13How does this differ to WebOS? Isn't it pretty much the same concept?
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#14This is actually a big deal. It is a step in the right direction to take care of the missing pieces of mobile app development. I really believe that in 5 years time, "application development" will be just assumed to be web app development and not desktop application development.
Yep, it may not be in 5 years but it's only a matter of time, no matter what native app developers would like you to believe. If we learned one thing from desktops, it was don't underestimate the web. Good to see things start coming back full circle with the mobile web.
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#15This seems a lot like a webOS with Gecko instead of webkit. This seems interessting as I hope the projects open webOS are building are going to be on which both plattforms can build on.
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#16How does this differ to WebOS? Isn't it pretty much the same concept?
No, WebOS was a proprietary operating system with a proprietary framework that happened to run apps written in html/js.
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#17How does this differ to WebOS? Isn't it pretty much the same concept?
WebOS also has its own framework. As far as I understand this is about standard web applications (i.e. framework agnostic). F.e. you could build your app in jquery-mobile and make your app communicate with the device through a JavaScript API.
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#18Maybe it's prejudice, but I feel uneasy with their connection with Telefonica, after seeing so many Spanish users (including some family members) complain about them
Telefónica has other names. Here in Britain it's O2 (yes, the oxygen molecule)
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#19Me gusta!
Spanish facebook Like button, heh
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#20While I think the idea is interesting, I will say what I always say in these situations:
Talk is cheap.
I wish people would announce projects when there is actually something to look at rather than just having a vague list of goals. It's like the "I have a great idea for an app and just need somebody to do the software development". I always like to think of products consisting of 15% Idea and 85% implementation.