[Jerry Raia]

http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/index.php?action=expand,50471

"In the latest PC Magazine, Michael Miller writes about the cool new things happening on mobile phones and opines that “consumers should be able to pick applications regardless of phone or carrier.” This is a wonderful idea, but is idealistic to such a degree as to be laughable. This fact doesn’t escape Miller’s attention. He adds: “There are multiple impediments: a bunch of different platforms that developers write for, a bunch of different phone makers, and four big national wireless carriers that want to control the applications on your phone.”

Ed Hansberry over at our sister site has posted an interesting article on the problems associated with our side of the world. Mainly the variations in hardware and screen resolutions are causing major headaches for developers. I can see this having three very different devices of my own. Every application that ran on my old 5600 (WM2003) had to be updated to run on the 2125 and updated again to run on the Q (both WM5).

[Jerry Raia]

http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/index.php?action=expand,50471

"In the latest PC Magazine, Michael Miller writes about the cool new things happening on mobile phones and opines that “consumers should be able to pick applications regardless of phone or carrier.” This is a wonderful idea, but is idealistic to such a degree as to be laughable. This fact doesn’t escape Miller’s attention. He adds: “There are multiple impediments: a bunch of different platforms that developers write for, a bunch of different phone makers, and four big national wireless carriers that want to control the applications on your phone.”

Ed Hansberry over at our sister site has posted an interesting article on the problems associated with our side of the world. Mainly the variations in hardware and screen resolutions are causing major headaches for developers. I can see this having three very different devices of my own. Every application that ran on my old 5600 (WM2003) had to be updated to run on the 2125 and updated again to run on the Q (both WM5).

[Mike Temporale]

This isn't going to get any better either. There's more variations on the way. Just look at the HTC Oxygen. It's the first WinMo5 device that doesn't have a QVGA screen. It used to be easy, just check the OS and the developer would know what screen resolution to use.

[Jerry Raia]

Yeah but it gives us a purpose here. :mrgreen: