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iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Microsoft... where do you think you will have the best opportunity to make money now and in the future?

J.Ja
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I think Microsoft it could be a good choice, as you mentioned, many companies have in-house Microsoft developments(I think Office apps will be on demand) and also Microsoft now is pushing their XNA Framework for Game development on WP7, and games are the apps best paid according some industry reports.
I am not agree Nokia is a small player(maybe in the US),however Nokia web app development (Widgets) platform is very easy, also they are pushing Qt as the main development framework for the next devices and current platforms, the problem is you a have lot of devices to target, but it could be a good option to make some money and reach global targets.

Regards!
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Jaqui 14th Jul 2010
they have bought out Trolltech, the original makers of the QT widget set for C++ development. They have the toolkit to build cross platform C++ based apps that will fit on the devices, so are in a great position to really dominate the market if they went about it right.
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actually is a fantastic opportunity for 2 often ignored technologies.
embedded GNU/Linux as the base os. using libsvg for cli image rendering, you can do a c/objective-c/c++ set of apps.
[ and anyone thinking objective-c isn't used at all hasn't looked at Apple's operating systems, the Cocoa framework is all objective-c ]

The benefits of the C option is very small footprint for the apps, making the most of the limited resources on a palmtop or tablet device. objective-c and C++ have slightly larger footprints, but still come in at far less resource hungry than the current favorites for these devices.
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