Thread: Don't you think that Android is more similar to maemo 5 than Harmattan ?
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2011-11-14 , 07:24
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Originally Posted by lanwellon View Post
Android has the widgets, so as maemo 5, but Harmattan is more iOS-like, only menu of applications...Don't you think so ?
No, not really. Not at all.

You may have missed the notifications view - where I spend far more of my time than on any menu of applications. And then there's the multi-tasking view, where I spend most of the rest of my time (often selecting applications I've "launched" from the lock screen - email or messaging - or from the notifications screen - calendar, weather, rss reader and thence browser, or Facebook).

The UI of Maemo 5 and Android and Symbian, for that matter - particularly the most recent Belle implementation - share the desktop and widget paradigm. But I don't think anyone here would get much traction for making a case that, because of that, Maemo 5 and Symbian are similar.

Yet, that seems to be the case you make for Android.