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johnkzin
2009-10-23 , 14:51
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Originally Posted by
Rushmore
Android is a shallow creek of an OS compared to the deep blue sea known as Maemo.
No. Android is a series of shallow canals and rivers. Useful and quite well suited for their purpose, but you wont be seeing jetboats, submarines, nor container ships in its waters. And its canal system is expanding rapidly -- they might be narrow passages, but its total square miles of area already exceeds that of Loch Maemo.
Maemo is a deep loch. But one that (right now) has almost no current, no tributaries, the waters are murky, and not a lot of square miles of surface area. It is far from being a deep blue sea. But it is impressively deep. A big, deep, almost stagnant*, pond, really. It'll hold an aircraft carrier or submarine ... but it wont be able to go anywhere, and you'll have some difficulty getting it in there.
(* 3 years to get 4 devices??? 2 years since the last device release? and the 5th device is only vaguely on the radar? And in those 3 years, how many 3rd party apps (esp. commercial ones) have been developed specifically for it? These waters are moving quite slowly compared to the Android canals ... which include phones, MIDs/pocketable-tablets, netbooks, non-pocketable-tablets, etc. with ports and specific apps being developed by a wide range of commercial and non-commercial developers. Those waters are moving quite quickly.)
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