Thread: Anssi Vanjoki says using Android is like pissing in your pants for warmth
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gerbick
2010-09-21 , 14:57
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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
Ok, gerbick, I think we're using "short-term solution" very differently. In my (engineering) experience it translates to "workaround", "stopgap", etc. You seem to be using it to mean "FAST solution".

Technically anything Linux-based is fairly future-proof, making it long-term (by my understanding of the term).
Ah. No, not a stopgap measure - even Samsung's Android move wasn't really "stopgap" because they've expanded it from niche product to full-featured line.

If Nokia went to Android, that would be a stopgap measure - if MeeGo is delayed, for instance.

I tend to use stopgap (think: duct tape) totally different than short-term (think: catalyst) due to how I've historically used frameworks to expedite my projects. Stopgap would have been to hard code all of the data (which... been there, done that too).

I would agree that anything based on Linux is somewhat future-proof... but Maemo 4.1 and Maemo 5 with their closed bits seem to be real dead ends. Thanks to Nokia, I now start to doubt that prior assumed truth that Linux based meant truly open-ended futures.
 

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