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#203
Originally Posted by johnkzin View Post
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.)
To drive the analogy into the depths, you should mention that the Loch Maemo is off in the distance and the boat is still out of the water being fitted out while the Android canals have boats sailing on them and more are lining up at the first lock.