Saturday, February 21, 2009

Here's what's going with the C SDK for Pre

So, I still haven't seen any Palm staff openly talking about the lack of a C SDK from for the Pre.

And NormSoft and Tealpoint don't know about it, much less developers like Pleco?
Woah... Not likely.

My guess?

Palm is working hard on a virtualization layer in the SDK that helps historically PalmOS-coded apps behave like they are native Pre applications.

The Foleo lacked PalmOS compatibility, it was one of their launch concerns rumors, they saw this and needed to deal with it.
There is no released C SDK for Vince Lee and Tim Norman to use yet, what are they supposed to do, start porting to JavaScript?  Seriously?

Can you imagine trying to write a speaking, character-stroke-drawing application in JavaScript?

Also, how do people protect their code?
Compiled JavaScript bytecode?  Come on...
I'm sure PopCap Games would be glad to hear about that.

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