I’m working together with some nice people in several industries. One of them built an application I’m testing. It works well on my wifes’ iPhone and should work on my G4 mini as well. The coming week I’ll also do some testing on an HTC (the one with the large screen) but it appears that reading QR-codes is proving to be a challenge. One that’ will be met but it underlines the problems arising with the compensation of Android. A problem Apple doesn’t have and that’s making them laugh all the way to the bank or Wall Street.
Probably the best way is to center your development around HTML5 and port it towards the flavors you have to port it. Especially when you need to address hardware.
To my developer friend I wrote a lot including
(…..) there is no more such thing as one “Android”.
As you know I’m a marketeer and market observator and in that capacity I read all about different flavours and forks of android. HTML5 should be the saviour here as it appears to be easy to port it from iOS and Android to Tizen. In my opinion two years from now there will be:
- iOS (outdated versions), iOS 6 and iOS 7 (with limited backwards compatibility)
- Gandroid (Google’s own devices)
- S-Android (Samsung, also the driving force behind Tizen)
- H-Android (HTC)
- AnyDroid, to run on devices of companies that cannot compete with the big ones. This version will be the second ‘droid to be “supported” by google.
- Tizen (It connects almost everything with anything, based to be HTML5 ready and open)
- Ubuntu, Sailfish/Jolla, Nokia/WinMob, BlackBerry & Co.
