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Let the tw@ts tweeting in the cloud commence.
Microsoft wants folks in emerging markets using inexpensive mobile phones to social-network away their free time just like fancy smartphone users do. The company on Monday announced plans for a light-weight mobile application platform called OneApp, aimed at developing countries where cheaper phones and pre-paid services are …
This is only re-inventing what Infusio, Rapid Mobile media or Ideaworks already do. An abstraction platform that provides a lowest common denominator for phone developers. We've also go OneAPI and Bondi, plus some 'single' web enviroments.
Remember the best selling phone in the world is the Nokia 1100 series. An abstraction platform, epscially one using Java or XML as this does, is far too processor heavy to achieve what is claimed here.
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Let me see...
"El Cheapo" phones? check
Small aplicattion, wich would run on it? check
Poor country, where people buy cheap mobiles and use pre-paid due costs? check
Microsoft Solution to this mobiles? check
Network data plan, due to the huge amount of bandwith? No thanks, sir. It's out of my budget!
Fail.