{"id":86,"date":"2004-04-06T14:29:54","date_gmt":"2004-04-06T04:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2004-04-06T14:29:54","modified_gmt":"2004-04-06T04:29:54","slug":"mobile-pascal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Pascal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Beattie has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russellbeattie.com\/notebook\/1007340.html\">interesting take<\/a> on what Nokia\/Symbian needs to do to compete against Microsoft in the Enterprise Mobile space. If I can summarise, basically he says that where Symbian currently falls down is in the development tools area. They have C++ API&#8217;s, and GNU-based tool chains, but need a good RAD tool to really make development accessible.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing terribly controversial there I should think. However, my take is that it&#8217;s not C++ that is unapproachable for your average, line-of-business developer, but the C++ API&#8217;s into Symbian. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hesitant to launch into a Borland Marketing pitch here, but, in my opinion, one of the &quot;sleeper&quot; features of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borland.com\/mobile\/cbuilderx\/index.html\">C++BuilderX 1.5 Mobile Edition<\/a> are the components which wrap the Symbian API&#8217;s. They cover all sorts of areas such as accessing Address Book functionality, dealing with Bluetooth, accessing the camera on your phone etc. This combined with the RAD Form Designer, goes a long way to making Symbian development as approachable as, say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borland.com\/delphi_net\/\">Delphi<\/a> and VB did for Windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Beattie has an interesting take on what Nokia\/Symbian needs to do to compete against Microsoft in the Enterprise Mobile space. If I can summarise, basically he says that where Symbian currently falls down is in the development tools area. They have C++ API&#8217;s, and GNU-based tool chains, but need a good RAD tool to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}