And lo and behold, i cannot download it because i’m not in the United States. Thats really a big blow, i’m not sure i’m gonna come back, will probably stick to developing my web apps the tried and tested old fashioned way, and upload them to a variety of smart hosting companies that allow me do what ever i want (data wise that is).

Eclipse isn’t a programming language. It’s a development environment supporting several languages. And is this all that unique? Doesn’t EC2 let you use a wide variety of tools? Don’t run-of-the-mill hosting providers?

We built the iPhone side of the tech, but Apple will not allow certain types of apps with embedded content — music. There is an incumbent that could be knocked over, and will be. The dynamics favor external, dynamic intelligence rather than an application that organizes liner file systems. But, we can ill afford to develop the Android side of the equation, and not all of the view controls are available there yet.

My experience is that either I am crazy and this is silly or that people are not quite there app wise. I waiver between the two! It would be good to generalize app development across platforms. This is where Adobe has an opportunity. An online system that controls the process from build through development would be incredibly cool. It would be like Coda with wireframes!

As more people are working on a product as more linear the solution becomes, and as more complicated.

Which clearly favors the existing large players, because of the resources they can throw at a problem. Even to “copy” it.
Except when a small group of people comes up with a solution which is outside the linear path. Hence the success and failure of start ups.
If you are outside the linear path don’t expect the big players to jump on an idea, but on the other hand you might be able to knock them over.
My “guess” is 80% of all the code written for apps in the application store could be generated.

Take the project I am looking at now, since this one nearly bankrupted me! Grrr. Mobile education requires that I be able to build certain types of products repetitively. Boioks, readers, quizzes, professional development video training tools. If I had a templated system that allows me to do this, as a teacher I could literally plug in my content and build for three mobile platforms. As a UI/UX professional, I could create a wireframe, and build a walk through application across multiple platforms. That is exactly what we use this for now. Walkthroughs…

The process requires databases on all sides for views, data and content, apps on all the platforms, and a tool that understands how to bridge the three spaces. Such tools would equivalently be useful for Nokia on Maemo. I would anticipate this to be much more difficult through.

If Microsoft wants some mojo, start at the tools and build up. I was just looking for online wireframing tools and project management technology for mobile efforts. Being agnostic with interesting build export options could be a very good point to stem the tide. Similar to Flash, they could allow for builds from wireframes and even produce iPhone builds of certain types. Interested? We built a customized build process that allows us to push a button and spit out an iPhone app. Apple will never allow this!

It could also be a base for publishing scenarios. One of the reasons we built this was to allow a magazine or a catalog publisher to customize builds for apps that contained media such as photos and video and music. Apple again will not allow stuff like this. But being able to wireframe a magazine, tie it to the databases controlling the content, dynamically bridging web views and then exporting a build across Android, iPhone and Windows mobile would be quite cool. This is literally possible for certain classes of applications.

Such products would also be interesting for onscreen prototypes and such. Imagine building a wireframe and exporting it cross-platform to a bunch of mobile devices? Microsoft could essentially become the glue, and get hold above Palm and Nokia. This will not be the case without workflow tools or very good technologies. Additionally, this could be tied to WebKit views, and a packaging system could be devised to hold the views and media. That would require that MS make Mobile Explorer WebKit compliant, which they definitely should do!

Steve
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They should have an entry level pricing which is no more than a virtual dedicated server to run.

The price of Azure is too much for developers boot strapping in my opinion. Yes on BIzspark I get some help but after that runs out i need to find the money to run it when I could run it for cheaper elsewhere.

I love the concept of it but it’s over priced.