Me asks my self:

What does Apple do that Maemo doesn't?

Me answers:

It provides an SDK for a platform other than Linux...

Me then ponders...

Soon it may be common knowledge that Android has now taken over iPhone as the smartphone choice for new smartphone users. That's the way it's trending... and it is happening so fast it may even be so by the time this is posted.

More apps are being developed, more features being deployed by Google, and there is a whole gang of OEM’s now producing “droids” in various flavors.

So I then asks me self:

What is it that Android does that both Maemo and iPhone OS don't do?

After going >>here<< I answers me self:

Android maintains free SDK's for 3 platforms...


This pro'ly should be in it's own thread and MeeGo should give some serious thought to maintaining Windows and MacOS SDK versions if it wants to be an Android contender.

My eyes started glazing over with all this talk of file transfer speeds. Chances are in five years we may be transferring files mobile to mobile so large that a new optical technology will be necessary.

I posted here because I wanted to get some reaction about Android OS phones.
I'm believing more each day that the iPhone may be a one trick pony that you can only dress up differently in order to give it any interest. When most people see the same trick twice they move on.

With the iPhone what you see is what you get. Most of it's "wowee" hardware and software has by now been replicated and has already surpassed anything that Apple has committed to build... But I'm drifting again...

For the sake of the thread it has always been my opinion that the N900 had the better hardware. The iPhone had better firm/software that took advantage of more of it's hardware out of the box than the N900's did.

Maemo was catching up but now Android has sailed right on buh bye both of them and there are no barriers to stop it, New manufacturers and old could come along at anytime and ad more features and Android will adopt a new flavor.

Hell, Nokia could conceivably build an Android phone (Bogus rumor alert! ).But, I don't see Apple ever doing so.

Not to piss in anyones cereal but I'm thinkin' in three years the iPhone will be looked at as just another toy and not the kind of tool more and more people are learning a smart phone can and should be.

The competition will be Android.