Originally Posted by maven1975:
The more I use the use the Pre, the more I am concerned for it and all smart phones at this point.
It seems to me that the iPhone has crossed the line of competitor and has reached absolute dominator when it comes to web developers. Every other website has an iPhone version that allows quicker access to the key aspects of its content. I agree that it is not always done it the best manner, but if other companies feel that they need to drop the coin/investment into catering to that platform, what is going to open their eyes to develop for another?
And all of these companies rushing out to develop App's for it.. absolute insanity. The older, less likely to buy a smart phone, are even starting to buy into it.
Am i going insane when thinking that Palm had better get their crap together within six months? Seriously, if the SDK sucks that bad, and they are still trying to fill positions, and they didn't event think about gaming when developing the SDK or the Pre, maybe they deserve to fail.
The days of the Treo are over. You have to get this ready for Prime time soon Palm!!
I still love my Pre.
Well when you sell millions of units that has revolutionized how people access the internet in their daily life, business will listen and act accordingly. That is not Palms fault. It seems you assume that no other smartphone will ever work in the long run because all these websites have been developed for the iphone and they wont do it for the Pre, Blackberry, or Android phone. Why would a business develop for any other platform because it costs them money? Well they do it to make money. If Web OS turns out to be a success companies will use resources to support the phone. It is not a difficult or expensive process due to the nature of Web OS. It will be interesting to see what happens in a year as Web OS appears on other handsets and more importantly on other carriers.
You also wonder if the SDK sucks. I assume its from reading the articles from the 3D gamer programmers. At the same time there are other developers who love the SDK and maybe you should search out those articles too. Palm decided that they wanted to make a device that would be easy to develop for through common web languages. The ease at developing the applications is the strength of Web OS. Any business that develops for the Pre does not have to worry about spending an enormous amount of time or resources to get an end result. In other words, it will be easy to make a profit on your work if you have a quality app that is useful. That being said if your app does not take off, well the money and time spent is not enormous. I can't think of a web design/ software company that will lose their shirt if they try to develop an app for the Pre. Its just not that hard.
I think way too much is being made about game development on this phone. First it can be done as shown by hackers. Second, Flash will open up many opportunities for game development. As it stands now, quite a few games can be easily developed for the Pre. No you wont get Resident Evil in 3D graphics glory but you can get all sorts of 2D games that will work fine when waiting at the bustop, or on a plane, or just when you want a breather from work.
I am glad you love your Pre but all your concerns lead me to think that you should just go get an iphone and then you wont have to have these worries and Pre related stress about their possible lack of games.
I'd also like to remind you that this platform has been out for a total of 44 days or around 1056 hours. In other words, lets have this conversation a year from now when we will have a better idea of how Web OS will be doing in the larger scheme of things.