SourceLabs: Bruce Perens' Forecasts for 2006
Dec 18, 2005, 01:00 (3 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Bruce Perens)
"Native Linux APIs gain ground as a Cellular
Applications Platform
"Java's also the Cell phone industry's answer to portability,
but not to performance. Take an underpowered, RAM-constrained,
battery-limited platform and use Java to run your applications and
you get an even slower, more limited platform that uses the battery
up faster. Handset manufacturers are starting to realize that they
all share the ARM processor in common--it's only the operating
system API that differs. There's a better answer than Java to the
portability question: run the same native executables across
multiple cell phone platforms. The advent of Linux and Open Source
GUIs in feature phones, and standardization projects like those run
by OSDL and Free Standards Group, will begin to provide that answer
in 2006..."
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