Corona On Android
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Lately Android has been on my radar. It’s gone from easy to ignore to something impossible to ignore.
I’ve tried to ignore it because I don’t care for Java. It’s a fine language, but it’s not for me. So, I’ve been quietly learning Scala to use instead.
Then this came across my inbox today: Corona, the Flash-like way of creating iPhone apps in Lua, is releasing an Android version.
The Ansca Mobile team has done a good job creating a viable alternative to Flash on the iPhone; interesting that they’re broadening to make their stuff run on Android.
Have you used an Android phone? After playing with the Nexus One for a bit I find it easier again to ignore Android (for now). The user experience is pretty crap compared to iPhone OS.
I don’t say this as an iPhone fanatic, but I don’t see much in Android’s future; I see more in Windows Mobile 7 frankly because they directly took Apple’s approach. An approach that does not work in other industries; one that ‘geeks’ in their twenties who are embedded throughly with the mouse and desktop metaphor, and being able to run everything while downloading a dozen experiments in shareware.
I realized Apple nailed the needed model when I started seeing everyone—seemingly EVERYONE—over the age of 45 or 50 were buying iPhones as fast as Apple could make them; mostly people that never felt comfortable in front of a traditional computer as we know them, and like my parents, people that really can do no more than check email. The iPhone, and soon iPad, is the first computer millions—millions upon millions—will felt comfortable using; my parents have fun, smile, laugh, it is their first computer.
Android is, or in one way wants to be, the iPhone for those of us who jailbreak our iPhones, but we are by far the minority when compared to Baby Boomers and young children: both groups clamoring for an iPhone. I never see those same people drunk with tech-joy over a Google phone or phone OS.
On a side note, it is fourteen years later, the whole Google esthetic is beginning to feel quite outdated . . .
Sorry for the ramble
V