Android is Linux taken... Mashed up with some 'creativity' from Google... (and of course the manufacturers...)adding to it rooting the phone voids warranty.. so its" NO, NO WAY" phone for people who used x-terminal and other developers and other people who like "OPEN SOURCE"..N900 defines it more preferably MAEMO-5 defines openness of an OS
Believe me, I though so too. But now with my N9 I feel waaay much more at home than with a Galaxy S. Besides the looks Harmattan is still maemo.
I have used N900 for more than 18 months and I will get my N9 this week, from the articles online, I think Harmattan is more iOS-like, maybe my opinion will change after the actual use.
I think Google's going even more open source so the gap between Maemo5 and Android is getting a little closer.
Whereas Nokia is shifting away from Android and away from Maemo5 with Harmattan which is very iOS-like.
Still I think the closest thing to Maemo5 (besides MeeGo/Harmattan) is QNX only if RIM open sourced it. Its a very powerful OS from my experience, in fact sometimes I wish Nokia released the PlayBook (then at least they would've had a chance).
Its more ios-like in some ways, of course. But thats like saying android is more ios-like than maemo5. which it is, of course.
Consider the multitasking, for instance. Hold homekey, see recently ran apps, pick one. N900 and N9 share the multitasking similarity much more than m5 and android.
Likeness with ios is easy. its simple to use, fast and responsive.
Likeness with android is equally easy. you can root and customize and play around in terminal and install nonstore apps.
Likeness with m5 is also pretty damn easy. youve got actual fast multitasking and appswitching.
Overall though I wouldnt say harmattan is like any of the three, but has taken things from each.
Android has the widgets, so as maemo 5, but Harmattan is more iOS-like, only menu of applications...Don't you think so ?
No, not really. Not at all.
You may have missed the notifications view - where I spend far more of my time than on any menu of applications. And then there's the multi-tasking view, where I spend most of the rest of my time (often selecting applications I've "launched" from the lock screen - email or messaging - or from the notifications screen - calendar, weather, rss reader and thence browser, or Facebook).
The UI of Maemo 5 and Android and Symbian, for that matter - particularly the most recent Belle implementation - share the desktop and widget paradigm. But I don't think anyone here would get much traction for making a case that, because of that, Maemo 5 and Symbian are similar.
Yet, that seems to be the case you make for Android.
