In this week's lecture, we learned about operating system. Operating system is one of the most important factor for my idea. It's the core and foundation of augmented application. I'll have to decide what kind of operating system I'll be using for my application before doing anything else. Right now, Apple provides the most vibrant and easy to use, profitable API for developers. They provide tools that allow developers easily create application that's easy to use for consumers.
Compared to Android, iPhone application are generally more sophisticated in terms of user interface and quality of application in general. Also, because developers prefer development environment where there are most demand. It used be dominant iOS but as Android's marketshare grows rapidly, it's common that more and more developers develop for both iOS and Android at the same time. I think it's good that developing app for both OS because of larger audience base.
Because of demise of BlackBerry and other mobile os, it's easier to choose what kind of application environment I need to focus on. I think it's important to decide what market to go after rather than trying to embrace every market which will likely result in wasting time and energy for something that does not offer profit. Right now future is iOS and Android, it seems. Maybe Windows Phone 7.
You might want to consider a platform agnostic approach where you build the application in titanium or something where it can then be ported to other OS's.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what Lee is saying, it would be more beneficial to create something widespread across the board for every type of phone carrier.
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