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	javispedro	2010-02-04 , 14:38
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Originally Posted by zerojay

No, EA will not be supporting Maemo, at least not now. No, Apple isn't paying them to stay exclusive either.

The only realistic way you're going to get game developers coming to your platform is if you do the following:

a) Easy to use SDK
b) Popular game engines such as Unity3D ported
c) Userbase to support the work
d) Piracy protection (DRM)

Palm only had the last one to offer, and (my guess) a lot of money and promises of a larger userbase (which they don't offer right now, even if it's quite a bit larger than N900's).

And btw Palm doesn't use any HW DRM -- they just make it hard for you to get the files since they're encrypted (using DM) when you connect it via USB Mass Storage.

Last edited by javispedro; 2010-02-04 at 14:42.

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