Thread: Will EA and Capcom Develop Games for N900?
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2010-01-04 , 18:22
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Originally Posted by Fargus View Post
I said DRM or copy protection mechanism, plese read the post. Symbian has suitable technologies in place and the iPhone is built around them. The other point is that I am not aware of another platform that allows such abilitiy to hack the underlying OS to avoid most higher level mechanisms: your solutions?

Java is not currently available on the N900 (thankfully) unless someone has hacked a version together recntly.
I don't know what DRM windows has by default but there certainly are many games that have their own... not that it would matter much

JAVA was meant to be usable on a wide range of systems and that's why it survived for so long, but quality and complexity evolve.

Maemo, compared to any other toy gadget out there uses a REAL PC OS, and that my friends is the future.

In the end one platform(probably ARM) will dominate and one OS as well, just like in the PC world where we have x86->x64 and, yes hate me, windows.
Unfortunately windows was unable to "deliver" in the smartphone world so the only logical choice remains a 100% pure linux OS that is not dumbed down like android or locked far away from the end user.

My opinion is that we here mark the beginning of the end for "proprietary" and broken out of the PC world operating systems. Those who see that will be the ones to benefit first.

What you install on your PC at home, you will be able to install on your "mobile computer". Nokia was the first to see this and google follows too, since android is soon to arrive on netbooks (a bit late for a "new" OS I might add).

The rest of mobile manufacturers still live in a dreamworld about "phones that are made for talking" and "yeah, let's bring phone mp3 players and games to the masses".