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Android vs. Maemo (Debian) and WebOSAndroid vs. Maemo (Debian) and WebOSPosted Oct 29, 2009 12:07 UTC (Thu) by forthy (guest, #1525)Parent article: Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2009
Perhaps Android makes it through the marketing hype. But there are already competitors which use a more standard Linux system - like WebOS, and even more Maemo, which is Debian-based. I'm all for reinventing things which are broken (Xt/Motif were broken, so Qt and Gtk had to reinvent that wheel), but I doubt there is so much broken stuff in Linux - the new stuff in Android seems to be a lot worse. In the end, it matters how many applications an OS has, and when there are obstacles to port applications, the number of applications will be lower. It seems to be that some of Androids features come from a telco wishlist; these wishlists don't have the customer in mind, except as how to get as much as possible from their money. So we can hope the more standard and more open systems will win in the end.
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