Thread: Would You Buy Nokia Phone as Your Next Mobile ?
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johnel is offline johnel
2010-07-30 , 00:59
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#172
Originally Posted by sjgadsby View Post
Forking everything to lock APIs at a given level discards the advantages of rapid, open development happening upstream. Maemo has wandered partially down that path several times already--with GTK, with being "Debian-based", etc.--and the going has always grown rapidly tougher as distance from the beaten path increased. As nice as it is to let users keep old applications from vendors long gone, binary compatibility leads to nightmares like Haiku's hybrid gcc2/gcc4 system.
In an ideal world and from a Developer's perspective I kind of agree with the above post but from a commercial perspective I think it is reta5ded.

Third-party software companies want to see stability and long-term commitment from an OS.

Why develop software for an environment that is going to change every couple of years and will mean rewriting/modifying your software?
It's an added expense of developing your software.


For years older versions of MacOS had backwards compatible software.
Same thing with Windows (ok maybe bad example!)
Windows mobile at 6.5 and older could run software for previous versions of the OS.
Palm OS 5 could run software for previous versions too.
Symbian has backwards compatibility also.
iPhone is also backwards compatible.

All these systems have a healthy catalogue of applications and is why there were/are so successfull.

Nokia should realise this with the Symbian platform.

Maemo and MeeGo (on handsets) will continue to be a minority, in the long run suffer from lack of apps and lack of interest from third-party developers.

As a user I would have to buy a new version of the software everytime a new OS was released. Who in their right mind will buy commercial software for their device knowing it will probably mean it will stop working after upgrading to a new device?

The n900 is a great device and no other manufacturer can offer anything as good as it because of it's flexibility of the OS.

But Nokia have decided to start all over again!
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Last edited by johnel; 2010-07-30 at 01:05.