Thread: Are you buying the N900? (Quick poll)
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2009-09-15 , 03:21
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Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
Haha, because Android is going to be a popular platform that's more accessible due to the plethora of devices that will be out for it (already many manufacturers have released or are planning on releasing a phone with Android). Thus they would eventually have the dominant marketshare as phones are gradually replaced with Android based phones =P. By having a VM of Android that gives us the best of both worlds. The openness of Maemo and the freedom to do whatever we want, and Android apps.

Heck if we could have an iPhone emulation I'd take that too. =P
Yep nothing like adding more and more layers between the software and the hardware. As a dev of 6+ apps for the platform I can tell you that in addition to the HUGE holes in the API (no accelerated 2d graphics etc), is the fact that the JVM doesnt do data manipulation well. I have several graphics filters - all of which are pixel based and they run like crap because the Java simply isnt up to the job.

But good luck with android. I will still be coding for it purely to keep my hand in all areas.