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Re: Droid Tablet

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As DaveP1 said, won't this eventually be true for Maemo as well? Maemo 6 is due out supposedly within a year. Is there some intrinsic reason forward/backward compatability will be simpler with Maemo? I'm honestly asking. Also, I don't know about the technical side of this, but isn't this part of the whole reason Google went with Java, to allow from more general compatability and an easier platform for coders to deal with? Or is that wrong?

Also, given that Android is projected by market Analysts to pass the iPhone platform in two years and have several times over more marketshare than Maemo (and I personally think Google is such a huge juggernaut eventually Android will completely dominate the market), for better or worse, won't this force developers to make things work? Hasn't the ubiquity of Windows driven the plethora of applications that work under different versions, regardless of whether it's a pain in the butt? I see this playing enormously to Android's advantage in the long run.

Granted there are several releases of maemo out currently. The big difference though is that when you develop for one it goes specifically for that device. I don't have that choice when I develop for Android. Its one market for all.

The only way to force a Dev to do something is to make it impossible for them not to do it. Now if Android completely dominates the market then I would imagine devs will have no choice, however as it currently stands - Devs are actually backing away from Android (several articles regarding this) owing to the complete Cluster **** Google has made of keeping standards etc. If those devs dont start then you wont get the cool apps and no domination.

Re: Droid Tablet

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Originally Posted by Bratag (Post 406385)

I don't quite understand what you're saying here. Purely from a money making perspective, isn't it better to have your applications work on as many devices as possible? Also, why is this such a big problem with Android? Again, I don't know the technical aspects of it, so I'm honestly asking. But it seems like Windows, the dominate desktop OS, works on a bazillion different devices and that's good for application developers (commercially speaking). What's the intrinsic difference with Android?

Also, isn't Nokia's plan to eventually have many concurrent devices with Maemo on it (they said it will take over the N series)? Will that create the same difficulties for developers as with Android?

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Originally Posted by Bratag (Post 406385)

The only way to force a Dev to do something is to make it impossible for them not to do it. Now if Android completely dominates the market then I would imagine devs will have no choice, however as it currently stands - Devs are actually backing away from Android (several articles regarding this) owing to the complete Cluster **** Google has made of keeping standards etc. If those devs dont start then you wont get the cool apps and no domination.

I guess by "force" I just mean, as you say, have such a huge market share that no developer can afford to ingore it. Whatever may be happening right now in the short-run, with developers backing away from Android, I just think the writing is on the wall with Google. They're giving away the OS. I don't think in the long run anyone can compete with that. And so to return to the unhappy analogy with Windows, did it really matter that Windows sucked and was a pain to code for in the end? It was market dominance and commercial concerns that determined where developers went, nothing about the OS itself. So if Android/Google gets the dominance, which I'll be completely astonished in a couple years if it doesn't, won't developers just be stuck dealing with Google?