Thread: So what did you expect?
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jjx is offline jjx
2009-11-24 , 18:40
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Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
solves those issues that have me avoiding the Android platform For example, having to run everything though a bytecode intepretator
You can write C++ modules on Android these days. People do it to accelerate games, for example.

true access to the device without having to hack around and install custom firmwares. I'm hoping Maemo will be successful enough to at least cause Google to re-consider some of their choices in Android.
Yay to that! I hope the greatest legacy of Maemo is it pushes the whole industry to noticing that a lot of potential paying customers are interested in open devices, directly, or indirectly (as users of software developed openly).

That's probably the thing which most motivates me to take the N900 seriously. I don't really need a little web browser, a PDA or even a posh phone. I really, really want to see the growth of a thriving open source industry in this area... that's a huge motivation for me.
Last edited by jjx; 2009-11-24 at 23:12.