Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed0.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Android apps development Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 10:56:43 +0100 Organization: Dirk Bruere at Neopax Lines: 44 Message-ID: <92huukFok9U1@mid.individual.net> References: <92fte3FjeiU3@mid.individual.net> <92hr0uFoagU1@mid.individual.net> Reply-To: dirk.bruere@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net yovo1BEXupMffUMJmEt3lAtklDTZAEk8unpO9kpBd4EtEPGbtj Cancel-Lock: sha1:SKBIK36Cyi/vj48glyWXd1S1Q48= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: <92hr0uFoagU1@mid.individual.net> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3657 On 06/05/2011 09:49, Nigel Wade wrote: > On 05/05/11 16:18, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote: >> On 05/05/2011 06:13, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> In message, Roedy Green >>> wrote: >>> >>>> From the quick exploration I did, it does not even support AWT, SWT or >>>> Swing. >>> >>> That’s right. Desktop-oriented GUIs are a waste of time on an ultramobile >>> device, as Microsoft found out with Windows Mobile. >> >> Only this year. > > The writing had been on the wall for many years, Microsoft just chose > bury their heads in the sand, presumably thinking their monopoly of the > desktop would carry them through. It's only really since the iPhone > eclipsed the rest of the smartphone market, and caused it to wake up, > that Microsoft actually thought they might need to do something. > >> A bit down the line and Tablets will be as powerful as today's desktop. >> > > It's not about power, it's simple ergonomics. You can't operate a device > with megapixel resoultion using a fat-finger. Windows Mobile requires a > stylus, and that's not practical or desirable. > > A desktop GUI designed for operation by mouse/pointer and keyboard ain't > going to work on a finger driven display. It requires a complete > rethink, and redesign of the human interface. That's what Apple did, and > got right, whilst Microsoft failed to do anything. > Well, an idea that is at least 15 years overdue is something I saw and used at a trade show around 1991. It was called (IIRC) an "eyephone". A projector that fitted over one eye, about the size of a pack of chewing gum. Somebody is going to bring out a phone or Tablet with a megapixel version of that. It will be hailed as revolutionary. -- Dirk http://www.neopax.com/technomage/ - My new book - Magick and Technology