Some phones are set up so that only apps digitally signed by the carrier can be installed.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] What phones do OSMers have? >From :mailto:[email protected] Date :Tue Jan 04 11:44:06 America/Chicago 2011 On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Nic Roets <[email protected]> wrote: > If you look at Android from the view point of the end user or the > hacker, it's quite closed. DRM, binary drivers, and the mobile > operators occasionally blocking tethering applications. How are mobile operators blocking applications? You mean blocking them from the store? Blocking them from the phone network? They can't stop you from installing an apk, can they? --- I'm definitely going to have to look into Maemo/MeeGo/WebOS, to see if it's any easier to develop for than Android. I do have some problems with what hooks the Android OS does and doesn't provide. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
