javispedro:
thanks for the answer. ok then, i didnt know flash10.1 was on its way to the palm pre as well. it will be interresting to see if it can be done... i will probably make a low qualified try. and im gonna try to find out and compare what OS files gets added/modified between the releases (with, and without flash10)
The more I read threads like this the more I worry I bought the wrong phone, for months I thought about it, wat I needed, wat would do the job I required. The N900 came up top trumps, it still is a great phone but reading threads like this I fear that it will just slip into the shadows...
Nokia refuse to say yes or no, honestly if they had a demo of flash 10.1 on the N900 then what is going on? What kind of company treats it's customers like this? Honestly the guys managing this kind of stuff need to be sacked! If this is how things carry on surely there will be no people left to buy the next Nxxx????
This whole talk about companies being "evil" is amusing to me. It is like they raped you or something.
Face it. Nokia is out for money. And as long as they can tap the open source crowds with promise of a $600 phone that's more open than the others and it gives them (the user) a sense of pride to have access to a terminal and SSH... ****. I would so do that too.
Nokia is a company. If you live or die, it doesn't matter to them.
So flash is closed-source. But it runs on linux, and it runs on arm, so what - exactly - are the technical issues getting it to run on maemo?
EDIT: or easy debian?
im not qualified to answer that... but i would think it requires some mods to the webbrowser and some mods to maemo - emulating some parts of android... and in worst case maybe also some emulation of sound hardware... if those things can be done with high level emulation there should not be a significant speed drop.
android is open source and if the webbrowsers supporting flash10.1 also is open source, it may be doable in a not to far away future
...if the targeted flash10.1 will be pillaged from palm pre im not 100% sure what will be required