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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
Originally Posted by ciroip
I think a discussion on mobile creativity is still a bit premature

Could you expand on why you think so?

Personally I think it is never too early to discuss this sort of subject... especially for a 4-year-old product line.
I was just trying to point out that in my puerile developing tryies I missed some basic services I would loved to have in my experiments. To be creative and explore new idea the tools have to be as much simple and basic as possible otherwise the platform will always be conditioned from the development choices determined by the libs avaibles. The devs priorities are always be to the portability of programs trough gtk or qt: that will probably bring really few innovative idea on the table.
Give access to more basic services and let people trying to play with things peculiar of the tablet and the creativity will flow. Having a fixed predeterminated know hardware should lead to use it to the maximum (something similar of what was usual on old home computers and consoles). IMO too high level libraries hide too much to the developers to let the ideas flow. The tablet need more hardcore programmers: the dev community lost 1 entire year just waiting for next cool device instead of trying to squeeze the juice from the actual hardware. Sure I cant blame Nokia for pushing on OS features more than specific hardware hacks but the point was what could unlock creativity.
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