Thread: Maemo device vs Android device/Apple iPhone: Upgradable Operating Systems
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lanwellon is offline lanwellon
2010-02-15 , 02:20
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Originally Posted by wickermonkey View Post
Surely it also depends on how apple, android and nokia are structuring there OS releases. Just because apple have changed to version number from 1.0 -3.0 and soon to be 4.0 is there really that much of a difference compared to the difference in maemo 1-5 and soon to be 6. Don't forget that apple 1.0 was always destined to be on the iPhone where Maemo started life on a MID
Very good point.

I know you mean that from iPhone OS 1.0 to 3.0 there is just no big updates. And, Android 1.5 to 2.1 is not big update either.

But there are a lot of softwares for iPhone and Android now.
For N900, there are only a few softwares.

If we take Android for example, it takes about 1 year to develop so many softwares for Google phone. And many hardware vendor take part in that.

For Maemo 5 on N900, the software development speed is much slower. And the software transplant from Linux is not so easy, it will also take at least 1 year to get as many softwares as Android has now.
And by that time, the Maemo 6 will release.

So back to the topic, I think NOKIA should provide M6 upgrade for N900 and speed up the development of the softwares.

I predict that in the year 2011 or 2012, Maemo will be more perfect and have various applications and functions.

But before that, Android will take more market share on smart phone market.