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distilling market noise into market sense.Application Environments: Order from Chaos
[Flash, Web Runtime, OSX, widgets, Java engines, Python.. the array of software platforms is chaotic to say the least. Research Director Andreas Constantinou digs deeper into application environments, explains who’s what and identifies 5 clear market trends]. Talk in the mobile industry is often peppered with software mega-brands; Google, Adobe, Microsoft, Linux (see earlier article on the 7 centres of gravity). After a long 7 years since the introduction of smarter mobile phones, software brand names like these are making a splash into the mobile phone scene. But the array of software platforms for mobile phones keeps growing.. and gets more and more entangled by the month, as new platforms surface. Of particular interest are Application Environments (AEs), the software layer which enables developers to develop, deploy and execute their applications on a mobile phone. Here I attempt to shed some light into the darker corners of the AE space, based on a similar presentation I gave at Informa’s Handsets World conference in Berlin in June 2008. For access to the full presentation see the end of the article. A very diverse range of application environments is available today: - Java ME, Flash Lite and BREW (and their implementations) are the most well known application environments. Silverlight has made a lot of noise recently as a Flash Lite competitor licensed by Nokia. Microsoft’s .Net compact framework and Red Five Labs’ Net60 are also noteable. - Google has introduced the much talked about Android operating system which in most part is a well designed application environment for Java SE-like apps. - decending from the web ancestors, the WebKit core and Nokia’s Web Runtime are also suitable for running lightweight apps with HTML elements and in some cases access to native device APIs. - on the scripting front, a diversity of scripting engines exists such as Lua, Bling’s ECMAscript engine, Sun’s JavaFX and ActionMonkey (the merge of Mozilla’s Spider Monkey and Adobe’s Tamarin). - SVG player vendors like Ikivo and Bitflash are actively evolving their software into application environments for custom operator and OEM applications. - Smartphone operating systems (Symbian/S60/UIQ, Windows Mobile and OSX) are often portrayed as ‘open’, where in reality they offer yet another application environment, which exposes (some) phone internals to application developers. -Linux-based operating systems like MontaVista, WindRiver, PurpleLabs, Azingo and Access ALP all encompass some form of application environment - traditional real time operating systems (RTOS) also feature proprietary application environments – including Mentor Graphics’ Nucleus, ENEA’s OSE and lesser known OSes like OpenPlug’s ELIPS. Naturally every tier-1 OEM has multiple, proprietary in-house application environments. Clearly, this makes for a huge choice of platforms to write mobile software with. So who’s who ? who’s what? SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Application Environments: Order from Chaos", url: "http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/08/application-environments-order-from-chaos/" });...
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[The first half of 2008 took the mobile industry by storm.. Nokia+Trolltech+Symbian, Android, BREW+Flash, Adobe Open Screen, LiMo devices.. As the dust settles, Research Director Andreas Constantinou looks at how...
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