NeoReader http://neoreader.com/pc.html

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Open Model is not just open source its open APIs and open mindset. Developers wants APIs. Open source might help them to write API if you can not provide but developer’s first priority is API not open source. However I bet even you won’t give them enough chance to do that.

Vendors using your OS (even your new boss NOKIA) plants specific vendor ID checks not to allow developers to write better application. What you are afraid of? If security, then I would ask doesn’t your vendors believe in security model that you created introducing symbian signed which itself sucks developers?

Its your policies that will lead you to failure in high end devices not your platform. Engg did a good job to build strong platform but management is not able to apply right policies. If you don’t change your attitude you will still have market share but only in low end devices. you claim 67% market share, can you provide figure out of 67% market share how much is contributed by devices above $700?

Its your arrogance and wrong policies that are giving edge to other platforms not because other platforms are better. Your policies sinks developers investment because you can not keep compatibility. you guys sucks never listens to developers. Grrrrrrrrrhhhhh

meant to say “we can remove the downloading requirement for users.”

Without intentionally sounding too self serving here (for which I apologize 100%), we (EventMobile) developed our first generation application,

http://www.phoneevents.com and http://m.phoneevents.com (for any mobile with internet access)

as a Windows Mobile application which we released about 18 months or so ago to version 5.x. Since then, Microsoft has accelerated the upgrading of Windows Mobile, this in addition to slow take up of the Phone Events download, which was noted by one of the panelists.

We then made the decision to build Phone Events to work “in the cloud” so that we can not remove the downloading requirement for users, but also expand our cell phone reach by supporting all cell phones with open internet access. We abandoned our development for Symbian, J2ME, Linux, and never even considered iPhone or Android native development as they appeared after our decision to “move the service into the cloud”.

In my opinion, most developers cannot afford, even if they’re well capitalized, to support native applications across OS platforms. Development, testing, and support costs are just too high. Additionally, every OS has one common denominator, Internet access. Hence the recent noise being made about developing native applications is a step in the wrong direction. Internet adoption has driven down the number of native PC and Mac applications, while causing a HUGE explosion in web services. I expect the same to occur with regards to mobile web services. All the rhetoric from the companies which back the various mobile operating systems are being self serving and unrealistic. History says the browser is the killer app, and eventually all of the Mobilize panelists noted here will acknowledge this historical fact.

My $.02 with best regards,

Curtis