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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-09-12 , 21:21
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#67
Originally Posted by railroadmaster View Post
Err until Maemo runs on non Nokia devices with full functionality, it is just as closed as Android.
Err, no. Disregarding Maemo, neither MeeGo nor Android are closed in any way. The only closed bits are stuff controlled by hardware vendors that inhibit end-users from running things on the platform.

I have never run desktop applications on Symbian, Windows Mobile, or Blackberry so why should Android be any different? Google used Java because it is standard for mobile devices.
Except they went and used a non-standard Java. Also, there is no sense in perpetuating the myth that these devices are somehow "special" and require toolkits that don't have implementations easily used on the desktop.

If Maemo so desktop like why isn't there Flash 10.1?
Because Adobe believes that mobile devices like these are "special" and they won't release a build for a device without demanding the vendor cough up money. This is the problem with closed source software like Flash, eventually one company sets the "standard" for what it means to be able to use the web.