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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
Considering that none of those will appear on Nokia devices any time soon, whereas Qt will make software available across all Nokia devices within the next year I suspect that, unless they're a totally US-focused developer, they may target at least Qt if not MeeGo.

I just want another device like the N900, only with a better interface and better hardware.
I would be very interested in some great MeeGo devices as well, and have high hopes for the OS.

I see a great opportunity for Android/MeeGo tablets to cross-pollinate as they both run the linux kernel at the core. I would be very interested in seeing some projects that bring X, QT, etc (or whatever MeeGo display manager is used) to Android, and Dalvik, android sdk, etc to MeeGo. Although this wouldn't be useful for the general consumer, it would unify two large islands of developers and liberate much code!

I also like some of the coming web technologies like NaCl and PNaCl (that I have talked about before). These also are tools for platform agnosticism leveraging the ubiquity of the web and the advantages of write-once-run-on-arm-or-x86 () programs run securely at native speed and with many useful facilities (eg. openGL es 2.0) for the development of rich applications. The coolest part of NaCl is that it's not only platform agnostic, it's also toolkit agnostic, so if it can be compiled to a binary, it can run on a system. The downside of a system like this, is that shared libraries become a thing of the past, and all functionality must be contained within the distributed binary -- or at least from the origin domain.