Thread: Ouch... Android is making my n900 look bad.
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2010-01-05 , 20:40
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
I'm going to play devil's advocate here... Maemo OS 2005, OS 2006, OS 2007, OS 2008, Diablo (4.1) and Fremantle 5.0... versus 1.0, 1.1, 1.5, 1.6, 2.0 and 2.1. Even though Maemo has been around for longer, Android has made some serious strides with more internal and external devs on its project and is starting to get more right than wrong.

Maemo has less devs in total and still gets some things wrong despite being around longer. Has less software... despite being around longer. Thankfully... has no fart apps though... so that's a good thing.

So why doesn't it have more of a share despite being around longer? Why isn't the mainstream software updated as much if Maemo has been around for longer? And above all, why aren't more apps present despite being around longer? And ultimately... why isn't OVI ready... despite being around longer?

Remember, I'm playing devil's advocate...
While there are valid concerns (e.g. lack of commercial support) it doesn't help that with each Maemo update, all the developmental work is pretty much nuked back to ground zero.

It reminds me of Final Fantasy X. When a city would become advanced enough, Sin (I think that was its name) would come around and blast it back to the stone age. That's essentially what happens with each update (at least that's how I see it). If it weren't for that we would have a huge library of applications stretching from the 770 days up to now. And there are things simply from the Nokia side that should've been improved (no disagreement there). It's shocking how bad Ovi Maps is, like I said before in another post, I think even the default Maps application in Chinook/Diablo is better than Ovi Maps.
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
They're maemo and MeeGo...

"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
Last edited by Laughing Man; 2010-01-05 at 20:45.
 

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