Three short stories, all about Android

Posted Feb 7, 2010 17:07 UTC (Sun) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: Three short stories, all about Android by hingo
Parent article: Three short stories, all about Android

I can't speak for the OP, but for me the biggest drawback to the N900 is the silence. Android has a vibrant developer community churning out tons of apps, lots of different companies creating Android devices in all sorts of form factors, and tons of passionate end users. It's quite impressive.

As for Nokia? A single uninspired handset and pretty much zero community. >crickets<

The N900 really smells like a one-company dead-end platform. How long will Nokia keep dumping cash down that hole?

So, even though the N900 appears to have an top-notch software stack, I'm carrying around an Android device. And, when I that ebook reader, I'll be carrying multiple.

Three short stories, all about Android

Posted Feb 7, 2010 17:40 UTC (Sun) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

Maybe you're looking in the wrong place? It's so easy to feel that a community is dead -- I tend to think that Gnome is all but dead, even though I read planet.gnome.org, but I'm sure it's a hugely vibrant community where lots of cool things happen. Similarly, I've never seen any evidence of Android being alive in any real sense of the word, while I'm seeing so many cool and interesting things happening in Maemo...

Given that Android and Gnome tend to be US-centric, and KDE/Qt EU- the stuff that's happening because Gnome/GTK is being phased out?g

Three short stories, all about Android

Posted Feb 11, 2010 10:50 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]

Surely somebody has ported the Android stack to run on the N900 so you can install Android applications?

Three short stories, all about Android

Posted Feb 11, 2010 16:36 UTC (Thu) by dsommers (subscriber, #55274) [Link]

As for Nokia? A single uninspired handset and pretty much zero community.

You're very much welcome to #maemo and #maemo-devel on FreeNode ... I'm struggling to see "zero community" there. It's actually pretty responsive channels ...

Search and you will find ...

Three short stories, all about Android

Posted Feb 12, 2010 19:05 UTC (Fri) by jebba (guest, #4439) [Link]

> As for Nokia? A single uninspired handset and pretty much zero community. >crickets<

I don't know where you get that from. I didn't check my mail for a couple days and have over 50 messages in my maemo-devel folder. http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2010-Fe...

On the forum, http://talk.maemo.org, it reports:
"Currently Active Users: 1255 (302 members and 953 guests)" -- "Threads: 38,568, Posts: 513,203, Members: 33,384"

In sum, you are wrong.