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2010-07-23
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2010-07-23
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2010-07-23
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You only need an app if you don't have a decent browser! Why on earth would you need a BBC app with MicroB (at least so long as BBC isn't running Flash 10.1)? That's kind of the whole point, no?!
If you want apps it's porbably best ot go Android or that other one
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2010-07-23
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How is the App better than just going to the website? It's light on details, but it doesn't appear to offer anything more than an RSS feed and a web browser would.
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2010-07-23
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2010-07-23
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I don't have an iDevice so can't tell myself, however even if the functionality isn't significantly better than the web browser the point is that it's yet-another-app - and a high profile one at that in the UK - for the competition. And no mention of any support for Maemo (or even Symbian).
Hopefully Nokia are pulling the strings behind the scenes to ensure there is an equivalent app for Maemo/MeeGo/Symbian too - get it written in Qt, prove the "write once" credentials that are the future of both Maemo/MeeGo and Symbian.
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2010-07-23
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2010-07-23
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The real question is if that battle really is worth fighting. The app-for-a-site really is trying to reinvent the web, and so far it is not much more than a bubble, done only to give an image of 'technological advancedness', when in fact, you're reinventing the wheel. You cannot win that fight - there are just too many sites that are 'important' and are changing way too quickly. As soon as novelty wears of and sofware development reality kicks in, someone will realize IE/FFox quirks were a pain, but re-developing and maintaining your site in half a dozen technologies, and, worse even, optimizing it for various versions, screen sizes and input methods is a Mission Impossible compared to that.
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2010-07-23
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Is this from your experience or did you just pull that out of your nether regions?
Android version to come later in the year.
Hopefully Nokia are petitioning the BBC to include support for Maemo/MeeGo - such high-profile platform support (even if it is UK only) would be a great feather in the cap for Nokia and Maemo/MeeGo.
Last edited by Milhouse; 2010-07-23 at 13:44.