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RE: 2011: The year of the Android OS

tonymcs@... 11th Dec

@Dietrich T. Schmitz * Your Linux Advocate

While buyers may like the multiple form factors of Android, it really is a mess for developers. It's the year of having the most versions of Android actually out there and functioning, until next year.

I develop HTML 5 apps and for the most part have no trouble with desktops and Windows phones - even Apple almost implements HTML 5 and you can have it full , as long as you wrap your app in an Apple webview and sell it only though iTunes, But Android - a mess. Below version 2.3 I don't even bother, the app is not going to work. 2.3 is a little better, but still lacks imprtant functions and only until I get to 3.1 do I have a hope of running HTML 5 apps. However, due to multiple phone providers screwing with the OS, what works in the emulator, may not work on a particular phone.

Android is a hobbyist OS that people use commerically and it really does feel like it.