Thread: Meego vs Android apps (C or Java?)
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2011-01-22 , 13:55
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Originally Posted by v13 View Post
Try considering the example I mentioned elsewere: MeeGo becomes an Atom-based success and HTC introduces an ARM based device. How will OVI work in that case? Will there be any application available for the HTC phone at the begginning?
Honestly, this is not a problem, unless you're talking about software applications that no longer have support. If I'm a vendor, and a new hardware platform comes along whose only difference from my current platforms is a new CPU (upon which the old OS is running), I'll have no trouble rebuilding the app for that platform. If you're talking about an app whose designer has moved on to other things, well yeah, that orphaned product won't run on the new device, but that's kinda how it works for computers everywhere...

Originally Posted by v13 View Post
For ovi to support multiple platforms:
  1. The vendors must provide multiple binaries, which is only possible for phones that are already released, or
  2. It must become a repository where the developers will upload source code (practically impossible for non-opensource apps).
Ovi supports multiple platforms today! Search for Angry Birds; you'll be able to find it for both Symbian and the n900, and I'm sure those are not using the very same binary...