Am 16.04.2012 22:34, schrieb Theo10011:
- Market trends- Majority of the developing world isn't on Android and
unlikely to be in the next couple of years. Symbian is the dominant player; albeit an abandoned OS, it is only the transitory one till Nokia shifts operations completely. With its limited memory, lack of expansion and a very basic OS, offline apps are a problem to get and support on it.
I think you are mixing up Symbian and S40/Asha. Both platforms have very significant market share in the developing world. Supporting offline wikipedia on Symbian is not an issue. One example is WikiOnBoard, but actually offline Wikipedia is usable on Symbian since about 2003. However, supporting offline WIkipedia on S40/Asha is challenging. I believe that this is not really due to hardware limitations, but rather because apps must be implemented in Java (J2ME) and cannot use native code. Note that for a similar reason it may be difficult to support offline wikipedia on some higher-end platforms such as windows phone.
Best regards, Christian