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Originally Posted by handful View Post
Hi Martin, indeed we use more memory, but Canola 1 was a totally complete different application, but if we did the same amount of stuff today on Canola 1 it would heavier.

For sure Canola 1 uses less images, less animations etc, etc so if you use it on a 770 it will run smoother. But I think the swap is needed anyways on the 770, because it really helps.

For Canola2 the decision was clear, we needed to evolve so we choose to go beyond the capability of 770, and we pointed out in the release time that the "support" for 770 was indeed limited, and after a couple of betas we figured out that OS2006 was REALLY problematic for our architecture (heavily dependent on DBUS and pynotify for example ) so we really do think it was possible to make it "good" also on 770 :/ not lack of respect for the owners, but is more the thinking of "what can we do next"
Hi Marcelo, I was just trying to look at c1 and c2 from a user's perspective.
Featurewise, c1 was already pretty complete and had working upnp support. I liked it a lot.
You're right that things need to evolve, but IMHO c2 became really heavy for the tablets. I like the fact that you still test your software on the 770 (I do the same with MediaBox), but maybe these tests can be used as a basis for a little more optimizations? All tablet versions can benefit from that.
The 770 makes you realize bottlenecks and extensive memory usage very well. And even though my 770 is almost 3 years old, I'm still using it for weather forecast and media playing (it got a nice place in the kitchen).
Just my 2 cents.