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So in case you wondered what happens when I wait too long for a bus, you now know.

It’s a perfect matchup.

Palm won’t be invincible, but won’t have to worry too much about resources. It also gets much better press coverage and attention.

HP, in contrast with almost any other Windows PC-maker, actually has a reputation for taking R&D seriously and for being ambitious. This does a lot of things but also puts them as the world’s top selling PC manufacturer above competitors with cheaper offerings in every sense of the word.

With any luck, webOS could feel the same fruition and resurgence NeXT felt after being bought by Apple.

Miguel de Icaza speaks on “section 3.3.1″:

MonoTouch has been misrepresented, initially by Gruber and by most people covering the debate over section 3.3.1. Probably because few of them have actually used MonoTouch or because they are not familiar with .NET. Probably folks think that MonoTouch is .NET, and .NET is Microsoft’s Java and draw their own conclusions.

MonoTouch brings the C# language and the core of .NET to the iPhone, but does nothing to provide a cross-platform UI experience or for that matter any sort of mobile device cross-platform APIs.

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As a developer, I feel that I should be responsible for my technological choices. If I pick a cross-platform toolkit that looks horrible on the iPhone, it will just leave the space open for a competitor to do a better job. Or if my application does not take advantage of a new API in iPhoneOS, I am also leaving a flank open for a competitor to take over. Apple does not need to intervene with guidelines as the application quality, the AppStore, magazines, reviews and word of mouth are creating the conditions for an all-out darwinian survival of the fittest.