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#172
Originally Posted by v13 View Post
Let's assume that MeeGo is released and that it's awesome.
First mistake... :P

In all seriousness though, Dalvik in a centralised marketplace to reach androids market share is going to win vs Meego and Ovi, app up, other 3rd party markets... Even if you buy a Meego device there would have been no guarantee your favourite Meego application was even in the vendors app market..

People keep saying that getting multiple versions for multiple architectures inst a big deal... but if you say to a developer:

"all you have do is recompile it for 3 different architectures, then test all 3 versions, then upload those 3 versions to 3 different app markets... its only uploading, getting approved then managing 9 individually hosted distributions of your application, and congratulations, you have now reached 5% of the smartphone market..."

Vs.

"compile it, test it, then upload to android market and you now have ~35% of the smartphone market"

Sure I might have missed a few minor details, but seriously, what would be the benefits to a commercial developer (who have multiple employees to pay) to develop for Meego...