Thread: Unity plugin for microB, fennec, chrome or midori needed
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gerbick
2010-04-26 , 23:10
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Originally Posted by hedgemonsta View Post
@gerbick

thanks for your swift responce and for not flaming me.
I posted to start because i lack the research or experience to make judgement.
You've come to the right place to learn. Take the time, search for what questions you have pertaining the Maemo platform. You will find a ton of info here.

I simply saw it as something good that would be welcomed by most/all n900 owners. it just grates me that android and iphone users are awarded for following trends and purchasing traditions. whereas n900 owners are left with nada due to lack of owner support or sales volume impact.
I wouldn't say those platforms are being rewarded/awarded anything more than honestly they're commercially more viable. There's no DRM on this platform, per se. The incentives to be on Maemo are pretty slim, none coming from Nokia directly. This community and the people involved in and around Maemo are the real reasons to use/develop for Maemo.

But even that has a more "grass roots" feel than the corporate machine(s) that surround Android and the iPhone platforms.

Perhaps MeeGo will change all of that. There seems to be a list of companies waiting on MeeGo that never quite showed up for Maemo.

Maemo is basically a full-blown Linux distro in your pocket that also makes phone calls. That also means if it's not open source or compiled for ARM, then it's more than likely not going to be there. I tinker with Unity3D, and would love to take my creations to the Maemo platform. But I can't do all of that by myself.

Heck, I'm an Adobe Flex dev... Maemo hasn't proven itself to be a platform for me either. And after Apple's responses, neither is the iPhone either.

do nokia expect to sell many more n900's ???
That's a good question that I've been wondering myself. Sure, they don't want it to fail, nobody does. But the way it's being pushed (read: not at all) it seems to be a platform that corporate doesn't understand exactly how damn powerful it is. And now with Maemo5 being part 4 of 5, and MeeGo being part... well, I don't even know - the roadmap to me is a bit muddled.

But not to all. The bright folks around here help even dumb people like myself make sense of what Maemo is and what MeeGo will be.

Read more around here. And yeah... there's a few folks around here eager to flame. Sticks and stones...

maybe not. thay have already planned replacements and changed the os and support system for developers within months of release. im trying NOT to be negative, but how can we support a device without support from nokia?
It's open source (for the most part)... I still use a N810 and just got updates to the OS by the community. I'm sure it'll happen that way for Maemo5 if it doesn't get a full MeeGo update.

i love my n900 and i started the post in the hope that unity could make it better.... but it seems that as its a phone with low support that the essential developments are not possible..
Who knows? Have you started with them yet? I get your position... I'm a former .NET dev, current Adobe Flex dev and I can't code one line of usable code on the N900 despite wanting to.