Adobe AIR is user-hostile compared to native apps says BankSimple CTO

By tim, on January 17th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Alex Payne, CTO at BankSimple, has written an analysis of Adobe AIR from the user’s perspective. The scenario: his team was looking for a an alternative to Campfire for group chat, and selected HipChat. They liked the features of HipChat, but not the desktop app, which is built using Adobe AIR:

My team experienced a

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January 17th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: .net, adobe, c++, java, professional, silverlight, software development | 2 comments

No native code development on Windows Phone 7 says Microsoft – so what about Flash?

By tim, on March 15th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Windows Phone 7 is a managed code platform, we’ve been told at Mix10 in Las Vegas. Development is via Silverlight or XNA; there is no native API.

Of course there is a native API; the question is more about what code is allowed to access it. Still, in the press briefing the spokesman was clear

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March 15th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: microsoft, mobile | 9 comments