Thread: What we do realistically see in the RX-51
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2008-12-10 , 09:17
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
The other thing that concerns me is the API break. I don't understand why that's happening. Can't they incorporate the legacy API and extend it with new features?
Maemo is not Windows. And one of the reasons why Windows got so damn fat was because it ships legacy API to maintain backwards-compatibility all the way down to Windows 95 or even older.
Anyway, since most of the API is opensource and not under control of Nokia, they can't do much about breakage. To avoid API break you'd have to stick with old libraries. Nobody really wants that.
Opensource applications can be recompiled for the new API, after all. The difficulty is with closed-source stuff where the producer lost interest in maintaining.