Thread: Symbiam S60??
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2009-02-14 , 16:33
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Originally Posted by ukjeeper View Post
Your first statement nullifies this one. "Symbian has more developers...and there are more applications available for Symbian". So surely it will be easier (more cost effective) to port S60 to Tablets than to port all the Symbian apps to Maemo?
Not really. Porting an OS to new hardware is extremely difficult. And to make it perform at it's full usefulness is even harder.

If you were to attract more developers to Maemo by making Maemo more mainstream, most of those applications would make it to Maemo. And they would run natively. So really, nobody would be 'porting symbian applications' to Maemo, but developers would create new applications for the platform.

See the difference? (Getting Symbian to work on the tablets is a 'port', while getting more useful apps on Maemo is 'evolution').