So we received the news a week or so ago that the GPhone is in fact a platform for open development of mobile devices and applications. Today we received the development tools and I must admit these are impressive. What Nokia has failed so successfully at doing for so many years Google and the delivered. Now to their credit Microsoft's IDE is impressive also and has been around for quite sometime but this new open platform is exciting.
Firstly to the ease of installation and configuration - brilliant, nothing else needs to be said. Moving on to the documentation and samples, it took me less than 10 minutes to get a basic rich application up and running - brilliant and finally to the emulator and flexibility in configuration - well done.
This platform is exciting, with that said I am suspect about so many components including just bringing another mobile environment to the table but as a platform goes what we have seen of Google and the broader Open Handset Alliances' (OHA) efforts to date indicate that Microsoft and definitely Nokia have a fight on their hands (atleast from an IDE point of view).
Oh Nokia, how you have provided such brilliant devices over the years but how you have truly failed at delivering a simple, easy to configure and used IDE. You should be nervous and very ashamed!
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