[Info-vax] Taking a break - Open Source on OpenVMS Conference Calls Resume in the FALL of 2022...

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/4/2022 6:33 AM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Sunday, July 3, 2022 at 8:33:33 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Most phone developers are busy writing apps for existing
>> phones not for phones that may show up in the future.
> Just how many phone developers do you speak with? I communicate with
> a few working for larger app houses. Those who work "native" are
> working with stuff that won't ship for a year. Many of the others bit
> the bullet and licensed Qt expecting Qt to handle the underlying
> hardware differences. Given the long list of phone hardware support
> feature requests, that was a bad idea, no matter how much they liked
> QML and JavaScript.> > Phones have a market life of about six months. You need lead time if
> you are going to use "the cool new hardware"

That is not how phone apps are developed. They do not develop
for Samsung S22 or Samsung S23 or iPhone 13 or iPhone 14 or ...
They develop for Android version X+ or iPhone version Y+.

Developing for a phone platform that may or may not show up at
some unknown time in the future would be crazy.

Arne