Thread: Ouch... Android is making my n900 look bad.
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2010-01-05 , 21:10
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
Also.. a lot of people are yelling at Nokia for lack of apps... Even google has a very minute set of core apps that are from "google".. Youtube, Browser, Market, Email, etc. All the other Apps are from third party developers - not Google.

You cannot compare third party apps between platforms... that is entirely dependent on the developers - not the parent company. Developers will go where there are users.. it's catch-22 world in that aspect. What you *can* compare is a stock OS', and if you want, apps released officially from the Parent.

I don't think the actual "stock" OS from what I've read is causing anybody any real problems.. most of people complaints are in the apps - Ovi Store, Map software, GPS, etc. Fremantle I think everyone is pretty happy with (unless I'm wrong?)

I don't see where it mentions whether 2.1 Android has flash built-into the browser.. does it? Does the Droid? Is it Flash 9.4 or higher?

The lack of an Ovi Store, bad map software, and bad GPS could be legitimate complaints - as these are shared from Android to Maemo. Market, Google Maps, and Navigation. However, Navigation just recently hit android.. before that the navigation software of the Android sucked too.
I think Nokia realizes that it needs decent app offerings to survive though. Hence their move towards QT across all platforms. Thus a developer could make an app on Symbian (using QT) that would also run on the N900, and the Maemo 6 device. Likewise an application developed using QT for Maemo could also be used on Symbian.

Honestly, if the next Maemo devices are going break compatibility again with Maemo 5, trashing most of the application development yet again they really haven't learned anything.

Originally Posted by ARJWright View Post
The same thing your Maemo device does when its offline. What kind of question is that?
Not necessarily. It depends on the application. For example, GPS navigation. If you had no network signal your pretty much screwed if you want to navigate with it and you don't have the maps preloaded. Yet with the Maemo devices if you already pre-loaded the maps (e.g. MaemoMapper, you download the maps, or with Maps on the n800/n810 and Ovi Maps even without a network connection you can still use it to navigate.

Granted Ovi Maps is TERRIBLE at it.
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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 21:13.