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2009-04-26 , 00:39
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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
A lot of present day applications (some of which ship with the NIT) already fail in various connectivity scenarios. For example, the IM can't keep it's status between connection changes even if it's life depended on it. Canola also has this nasty habit of disrespecting flight mode. Yes, I know, the canonical answer is that I should have filed a bug report - except I think if more app devs get it wrong than right, IMO it's not an application bug.
Application-awareness is a great topic. I fancy myself better-than-average in the art of multi-threading and asynchronous/synchronous communications. I'm very comfortable thinking about such things. Again, good for me. But as important and difficult as these concepts can be while trying to insure a robust mobile experience, a powerful IDE can hide or abstract them from your average developer.

If the Fremantle API's are any indication, Nokia seems very serious about their future application framework. And once the Maemo 5 devices are in play and some of the dust settles, it would then be a perfect time to place a spectacular IDE on top of the SDK. It'll be a circus; Nokia just needs to execute.

But even then, I still think I'm years away from trading in my vi and an xterm.
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