Re:Maemo vs. Android
by dagw on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @05:12AM
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The poster seems to be confused about what he is trying to argue. Is he talking about technical merits or which will sell more? Even as a fan of Maemo there is no doubt in my mind that there will always be more Android phones on the market than Maemo phones. Also if you're intention is to sell apps and make money you're best bet of the two is Android.
If writing phone apps was my day job I'd easily choose Android over maemo any day of the week. As a geek programming simply for my own enjoyment the Maemo platform is far more enticing, if for no other reason than the fact that I get to use tools like Qt4, C, python, and all the libraries available for Linux. The idea of having basically a slightly stripped down Debian on my phone is just really cool. Plus the new Maemo 5 seems to finally be a truly usable environment running on some nice hardware.
Re:Maemo vs. Android
by shmichael on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @06:42AM
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The prospects of the marketing success are closely tied to technical aspects. Any OS you go with, great as it is right now, would require upkeep. This upkeep is directly related to success of devices carrying the OS.
If writing phone apps was my day job I'd easily choose Android over maemo any day of the week. As a geek programming simply for my own enjoyment the Maemo platform is far more enticing, if for no other reason than the fact that I get to use tools like Qt4, C, python, and all the libraries available for Linux. The idea of having basically a slightly stripped down Debian on my phone is just really cool. Plus the new Maemo 5 seems to finally be a truly usable environment running on some nice hardware.