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Originally Posted by sharper View Post
Thanks for the informative post!


What do you think are the chances of this happening? Alternatively what are the chances of the necessary code being made available so a community effort can proceed?

My main concern is getting as much application compatibility as possible into Maemo. I think realistically it's assumed that new smartphones are competent in a number of different areas (phone, maps, photography, web, scheduling etc) with the differentiating factor being applications.

If people with Maemo can have Linux applications, Maemo applications, the new cross platform QT framework applications, Java applications and Android applications then it becomes a very attractive device that essentially commoditises application compatibility and makes it a "standard feature" that you can run applications from anywhere.

What I really want to be able to do is run the Java applications I like (gmail, google maps, opera mini) and my first thought was looking at the open source J2ME project and porting that. If the bulk of the work is already done by Nokia it would be a shame for the community to have to replicate that.
I totally agree with you!
I could also add for a enterprise customer that already had made strategic decisions about what platform they should use on the server (for example JavaEE) and on the client (for example JavaME), these company usually don't think Maemo devices is choose now, because there is no JavaME support. They think it is to expensive to port already existent JavaME applications and they also have not developers with Qt knowledge.