Thursday, February 14, 2008
AOL Announces New Mobile Software Platform
Posted by Jon Westfall in "DEVELOPER" @ 06:42 AM
"DULLES, VA and BARCELONA – February 11, 2008 – AOL today announced the AOL Open Mobile Platform, which it plans to make available to developers this summer. The new open platform will help stimulate innovation by providing developers with ready access to the tools and source code they need to build and distribute applications across all major mobile device platforms and operating systems including BREW, Java, Linux, RIM, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. As a result, developers will be able to create applications for a wide variety of mobile devices."
Great, another new platform! I've been waiting for this for so long because their are so few on the market! </sarcasm> Seriously, I thought Java was supposed to be the universal platform? And I've honestly never heard of BREW, which apparently been around since 2001 but is prohibitively expensive for hobbyists to use. Perhaps AOL has good intentions in this, but I wonder if it's just another "Everyone else has it, let's try it scheme".
Great, another new platform! I've been waiting for this for so long because their are so few on the market! </sarcasm> Seriously, I thought Java was supposed to be the universal platform? And I've honestly never heard of BREW, which apparently been around since 2001 but is prohibitively expensive for hobbyists to use. Perhaps AOL has good intentions in this, but I wonder if it's just another "Everyone else has it, let's try it scheme".
