Thread: Install Iphone OS on N900 Possibility?
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-04-23 , 01:22
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#17
Originally Posted by crown77 View Post
i dont get it why all people saying that the Iphone OS is so closed at all, if i compare it with the N900 Maemo OS i cant see this difference.
The iPhone OS is closed because:
- No source code is available for any of the OS.
- Out of the box you are not able to load software on the device without going through the app store.

Maemo5 the Drivers for the GSM Part and i guess some other hw related Drivers are locked by Nokia too. And for the IPHONE OS its possible to develop Apps too so where is the difference?
Not quite. While Nokia's software for calls isn't open, the Ofono software stack works with it.; and just because you can develop software for it doesn't make it open, especially not if Apple requires you pay $99 before you can load it on -any- iPhone, on top of them having veto power over you giving it to anyone.

Problem with the NIT Android on N900 ahh right the Hardware Drivers..
Currently the N900 drivers are a giant patch on the 2.6.28 kernel, combining the hardware drivers plus the Android patches is a giant pain in the ***. If they get the drivers into the upstream for the kernel, it would probably be easier.