Thread: Why maemo is not as popular as Android?
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2010-12-07 , 17:12
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#28
Originally Posted by zimon View Post
Android: Dalvik is good as a higher intelligent interpreted statically typed language platform, which Meego and Maemo lags. The future likely is with these kind of platforms when there is multiple cores and lots of RAM memory available.
Dalvik is a huge case of NIH that doesn't add a whole lot except break compatibility with everything that exists in the open source world and sticks you with what Google provides.

Meego: Oppenes and more Linux-like. You can do more or much about anything with the hardware.
Dodges the entire Google dependency and provides no less capability than a VM. You also expand the developer base and effort that feeds into your OS by not consolidating all development in one location.