Maemo seems to be getting good reviews all over, Nokia shows off SNES on N900, quickly thinks better of it — Engadget. But lets not forget Palm’s webOS also dazzled people and it is currently better that Maemo 5 in some aspects, but it has not gotten much traction, yet.
I am getting a N900 in a couple of days, but I am not planning to do any major development, if any at all for Maemo yet. That is because there is currently no easy way to sell your apps for Maemo i.e. there is no Ovi store for Maemo yet. But most importantly I just hate Gtk/Gnome/Hildon UI which Maemo5 is built upon. If I was to say I hate C it would be very close to truth. I think of C as a uncivilized savage beast (a beast, not a mouse).
Another thought I have about this n900 is how much they are promoting its multitasking capabilities, multitasking does have its benefits, but in small portable devices, where speed and performance is very important, multitasking can create problems. So now I think iPhone’s approach is better, there is only so much you can do on a 600MHz processor. I think Apple will eventually introduce multitasking, but not like we have it in the existing smartphones. I believe at some point in the future the iphone os will allow ui-less apps to run in the background, but only one ui app at a time. I think they will have a approval process with conditions like how much resources etc an app uses.
