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Originally Posted by Bob Russell
According to Rob Shaddock, corporate vice president and chief technology officer of Motorola, there is a tremendous opportunity for developers by writing for mobile devices.
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I write software for mobile devices as part of my day job, and I've got to say that this is quite the ironic comment coming from the CTO of Motorola. Motorola causes us an order of magnitude more problems than any other phone manufacturer. Their MIDP implementations are both buggy and non-compliant; their networking layer is almost unusable; and useful specs on the devices are ludicrously hard to find. (As a developer, I care about the canvas size in pixels, not the screen size in inches!)
If he really wants people to develop stuff for his devices, then he should start by making them not suck, and follow up by making it easy to get the information developers need.
(Sorry if this is coming across as a rant, but Motorola has been the cause of a lot of pain for me recently..)