Thread: Can someone tell me why N900 and not Android?
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2009-10-29 , 19:41
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Originally Posted by jsa View Post
Isn't the DRM also for commercial applications and not just for music? If it was only for music the DRM mode would be a lot easier to avoid but I expect there to be some commercial applications I might want to use. I voiced some concerns in the DRM thread and I hope even the "closed mode" won't be too tightly locked down.
I just used music as an example, but yeah, it is highly probable that commercial developers will want some kind of lock to avoid piracy of their apps. As paradoxical it sounds for an open source system... I guess it is too early in this stage of mobile development to offer a free app, but charge for the support or customization of it (the old open-source revenue model if my memory serves me well).