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egoshin is offline egoshin
2011-02-14 , 08:02
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Originally Posted by zwer View Post
You can't be further from the truth. Maemo is in almost every way different than Android, they are similar only by the name of their kernel, and even then Google stripped out a lot of the one going into Androids making it increasingly difficult to upstream.
Not true. Google does not strip anything from Linux kernel, it actually add some drivers to kernel. It is not Google who deleted that stuff from mainstream kernel and that is a reason why you don't see some new fancy features in Google's kernel.

However, it is a separate topic.

N900 was never mentioned to be a flagship
At time when I bought N900 it was positioned as a most powerful Nokia device. If your interpretation flagship is differ - sorry.

Android does not support GPU acceleration (it will, eventually, they keep putting it off for each new version). Of course, they'll conveniently say that the manufacturers should include their optimizations all by themselves if they want to accelerate their UIs... like those exist for video accelleration and then there would be no problem.
Well, your description here is close to truth. However, it is choice of manufacturers how much money they want to put copying open source. But again, back to original issue - you (manufacturer) chooses spend money on CPU instead of investing money into GPU acceleration - then it is your decision.
Last edited by egoshin; 2011-02-14 at 08:09.