Thread: Google's Android preview.... looks like the n800 did all that a year ago!!
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2007-11-13 , 14:06
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#24
Originally Posted by speculatrix View Post
it seems that linux really needs to coalesce around a smaller number of GUIs - what with Qt/Qtopia (& Opie), GPE, Android, Hildon/Maemo, and others I can't think of right now - and a relatively small number of developers, the skills required to build really good applications are being spread too thinly.
I agree entirely. There are quite good Qtopia apps, for example, that could have been a good starting point for a Maemo application, if it wasn't for the fact that it's for an entirely different API. And so on. Lots of effort spread over incompatible widget sets. And Hildon could probably have been hidden more deeply into the gtk/gnome-based system so that applictions didn't have to be "hildonized" as much (or at all..).

For the Linux desktop this diversity doesn't really matter, as you can run anything on everything. It's probably a good thing in fact. It's a very different situation for mobile devices though.
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