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Developer Summit 2009
An API is open or it is obsolete
Bernd42 | 28 April, 2009 12:07
In the Symbian Foundation presentation Lee Williams, said in his presentation that an API in Symbian is either open or it is obsolete. This simple statement in one of the best news at the summit for me. This will open up a lot of new opportunities to ceate more innovative and exciting applications.
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I agree a bit with yout comment, but ...
Bernd42 | 29/04/2009, 14:06
This doesn't change the signing process, but not many of the APIs will need capabilities which prevents them from beeing used. That means that signing will not close all of them again, but certainly some.
My point is
stevejanko | 30/04/2009, 09:24
Signing an App will stop it from running devices that do not support the certificate, furthermore operators can close of certain functionality.
Therefore certificates are proprietary which makes anything depending on them proprietary which means no API is truly open (I am looking at it from a J2ME point of view)
True for Java bot not for Symbian
Bernd42 | 01/05/2009, 01:57
That is certainly true for J2ME, but we are lucky that this is not the case with Symbian. There is only one certification process and it works for all Symbian phones because all have the same certificate.
That does not mean that all APIs are available on all phones. There will be always new phones which new functionality and therefore new APIs which are not supported on old ones and there is also the difference in hardware features, but these problems can be handled.
I Agree With The Statement But ...
stevejanko | 29/04/2009, 09:33
Doesn't the whole signing process CLOSE all API's