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Originally Posted by jletendre
Hi
Now I am sick of hearing all about the FANTASTIC SDK, yeah it's great if all you want to do is develop for iphone. Blackberry dev tools align with industry standards - Visual Studio, Eclipse, Java. Blackberry's error is not tooting their own horn and marketing it to death. Apple did one thing - they opened up a lot of peoples eyes to how large smartphone market is becoming and what is possible. I think once the dust settles you will find the major applications on both platforms as what developer wants to limit their income (even moreso with Apple taking a bite out).
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Your joking right? A fantastic SDK is good for more than developers. A fantastic SDK means that applications can be easily and rapidly developed, and support native features of the platform. A platform with a fantastic SDK will get developers to flock to it and develop high quality apps. A platform with a so so or crap SDK will not draw developers to the platform, and give lower quality software when they do decide to develop apps.
BlackBerry dev tools work with industry standards, but have you seen the simplistic BlackBerry apps compared to everything else for other platforms? We have absolutely no quality high end games, they are all simple 2D affairs we see on EVERY mobile phone.
The proprietary SDK Apple is using gives the developer the ability to create apps that look fantastic and are developed much more quickly that using other toolkits. Their toolkit contains software that allows developers to create advanced 3D games that look more like a portable console than a mobile phone.
Without a fantastic SDK, the platform will not have any of those apps. Unless BlackBerry switches their toolchain, BB will not get advanced 3D entertainment or high quality apps. And I don't care how fast you make the device. Because of the SDK, you will get much more high quality software on the Iphone end ... A LOT more than on the BB end.