Hi Guido Am 22.02.12 10:06, schrieb Guido Stepken:
Tablet apps will very soon even dominate the desktop market!
I agree!
This increasing market with hundreds of millions hardware units is completely lost for Smalltalkers, once again.
I disagree! ;) It might be lost for standalone applications, right. But this is true for a lot of other technologies too, like the mentioned Adobe Flash, which also shows the difficulties of such a strategy. But, IMHO, the door to this market for Smalltalkers is wide open as long as you insist to use web-technologies (HTML5, AJAX, SVG et. al.) where Pharo and frameworks like Seaside or Aida/Web offer you a wide range of possibilities to develop platform-independent, innovative applications. Also Adobe justified their decision to drop Flash with the evalution of the future of these technologies. I am convinced that the future of such ($$$) business or community applications will be the browser. Just my 5 cents and may of course be completely wrong. Cheers, Chris