*sheer.
How is this different from Chakra?
Nothing on the internet truly is.
You'll be sacrificing the availability of tons of apps if you go with WP7 though.
Is more than enough to feed the entire population of Somalia, a nation that is struggling with starvation.
And they want to spend this much money on computers?
If you don't like JNI, you can use SWIG, it generates JNI code for you.
I suggest reading this book, it's gotten a lot of good reviews, I've seen a lot of people recommend it to people starting out with JS.
It explains a subset of Javascript that's simple to use, and also the most used in practice.
I personally think of it as a feature, it prevents you from blindly copy pasting code.
Sure, I had my problems with indentation when I first started learning it, but now I'm used to it, I think of it like curly braces in the C family of languages.
Hobbyist programmers don't write BASIC code these days, the question you should be asking is "why can't we put python/ruby on the phone?".
Proof?
Care to elaborate on why Android is an awful platform?
Oh, and Android is NOT a cross platform API, Android apps only work on Android, unless you mean that the SDK and tools are cross platform.
I'm waiting for Kinect 4
Variables don't; constants aren't.