If Maemo is the way forward, there's a serious problem.
At my previous company, we developed an 'applet' (one of the little widgets on the desktop) for the Nokia 770 and N800 tablets. I worked closely with the tablet team (all great people, for the record) and yet it was one of the most painful development processes I've ever experienced.
Applets run in the context of the desktop app, so if there's a crash, the entire device reboots, period. The desktop toolchain worked well enough once set up, but it didn't have access to the wireless APIs so we were unable to use it. I eventually wrote an app for the device that loaded and ran our applet inside it, which made debugging with gdb possible, but even with this it was horrid.
I'll be a Nokia fan for life after working with those guys, but I can't help but see Maemo in itself as one step forward, two steps back.
At my previous company, we developed an 'applet' (one of the little widgets on the desktop) for the Nokia 770 and N800 tablets. I worked closely with the tablet team (all great people, for the record) and yet it was one of the most painful development processes I've ever experienced.
Applets run in the context of the desktop app, so if there's a crash, the entire device reboots, period. The desktop toolchain worked well enough once set up, but it didn't have access to the wireless APIs so we were unable to use it. I eventually wrote an app for the device that loaded and ran our applet inside it, which made debugging with gdb possible, but even with this it was horrid.
I'll be a Nokia fan for life after working with those guys, but I can't help but see Maemo in itself as one step forward, two steps back.