Comments on: TC50: Mytopia Wants To Help The World Play Together

By: Developer Watch: Mytopia, Inc. | The MobiHand App-tivity Blog

Developer Watch: Mytopia, Inc. | The MobiHand App-tivity Blog — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:14:55 +0000

[...] Introduced in 2008: Mytopia participated in last year’s TechCrunch50 conference, where they demonstrated their cross-platform development framework called RUGS. The idea is that [...]

By: Yotam

Yotam — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:53:28 +0000

There seems to be some technical confusion in the recent comments regarding our platform, so let me take this opportunity to answer some of the critics:

“This already exists. It is called Bando.”

Try Googling ‘Bando’ and see what you find.

“This is just a virtual machine nothing revolutionary.”

It’s not a virtual machine in the classic java VM machine sense of the word, if anything it is more similar to high-level virtual machines that abstract high level actions (draw image, connect socket, etc.) from their platform specific implementation. Java and Flash are not great examples of competing technologies, but regardless we provide faster performance and a smaller footprint than both, not to mention coverage of all popular smartphones today.

“Unfortunately the terms of the iPhone SDK don’t allow virtual machines so I wouldn’t count on seeing this on the iPhone unless Apple changes those terms”

Commenter was likely confused by the previous post. The above statement is factually accurate in regards to the iPhone SDK but irrelevant to Mytopia’s platform. We are not running on virtual machines – we are running native iPhone apps.

Yotam Shacham
CTO
Mytopia.com

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:31:32 +0000

Unfortunately the terms of the iPhone SDK don’t allow virtual machines so I wouldn’t count on seeing this on the iPhone unless Apple changes those terms.

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Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:45:23 +0000

[...] if you could somehow challenge your friends Facebook or other platforms to play the same game, much like Mytopia does with casual games. Although, it probably wouldn’t be the same without the [...]

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By: Bad Sector

Bad Sector — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:36:38 +0000

This is just a virtual machine nothing revolutionary. I’m making such things since i remember myself and the idea is as old as computing itself (search for p-Code and UCSD Pascal for a relatively recent example – although Java itself is the same thing, the J2ME API is implemented in desktop and applets so technically one could write a J2ME game and have it running everywhere). Also Flash itself is exactly the same thing actually, you just replace the RUGS player with the Flash player. Of course this doesn’t mean that it works with today’s phones but in reality it isn’t as important as they make it sound.

By: Jerome Chouraqui

Jerome Chouraqui — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:03:17 +0000

This already exists. It is called Bando. I has been developped in the real broadcast world. It is deployed on 10 million Set-top boxes and has been ported to mobile phones. It is now used by mob-it in France, New Vision Partners in Malaysia.
The language is called BandoXML (XML DTD) and is linked to thin software client (Bando Player), written for each OS.

It works perfectly well even if it needs improvement. Patents are existing (10 years old that covers most parts of the world).

Morover, the technology is licensed and has been for sale as a package, recently… If interested in any way : jc@nptv.fr

By: Erez

Erez — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:35:17 +0000

I like the idea very much. It will help developers especially in the mobile platforms. Cool.
For more news about Israeli startups visit siliconwadi.mixx.com .

By: Mytopia - a great ease for developers | Java downloads

Mytopia - a great ease for developers | Java downloads — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:03:23 +0000

[...] TC informs – Mytoipia ia simple to understand. It lets you code once, and an application is automatically translated for compatibility on a range of mobile and Web platforms. RUGS applications are running natively on each platform, with porting solutions for Flash and every major mobile operating system. They demonstrated support for Windows Mobile, iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian, Palm OS – even the Android emulator. [...]

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » TC50：Mytopiaは世界中が一緒にプレーできるよう支援したい

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » TC50：Mytopiaは世界中が一緒にプレーできるよう支援したい — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:27:57 +0000

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By: AnotherDater

AnotherDater — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:04:49 +0000

Why do I have to sign in to use this. No thanks.

By: Greg Kumparak

Greg Kumparak — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:42:12 +0000

Thanks – fixed. It does indeed support iPhone/iPod Touch, with support for accelerometer, touchscreen input, etc.

By: Denis

Denis — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:11:04 +0000

No mention of the iPhone one way or the other? Bad reporter. No cookie.

By: Markus

Markus — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:09:21 +0000

Can you clarify;

“every major mobile operating system”

Yet, you didn’t list iPhone OS, although it seems to be pictured.

This sounds truly amazing, I’ve wanted to delve into iPhone development don’t have inclination (time) to learn Objective-C.

By: Sheraz Mahmood

Sheraz Mahmood — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:29:38 +0000

Interesting technology. This type of technology needs to become simpler to code across the platforms, it is still in its early days and coding across my Blackberry to the iPhone to the Nokia cell phone is a bit pain.