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If I could magically choose what would win the looming phone OS war, it would be this:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl? ... d=26999113
Nokia should really push this platform and make it available to non-Nokia hardware manufacturers. Binding software to hardware is what killed BeOS and the Amiga, and what nearly killed NeXT. They're sitting on a goldmine with this - though I do doubt they can beat Microsoft, Apple, and Google.

PyS60? Is that it? That's not even an OS, it's a version of Python with a package of tools tailored to Nokia's phones. I'm sure developers on the iPhone could get a Python interpreter running if they wanted it, and considering Google's love for Python, I guarantee there will be Python on Android at some point if it doesn't exist already. The tools are available to non-Nokia developers (the whole project is open source with a project page on SourceForge), but they probably wouldn't work on other phones - as far as I know, there aren't any standard interfaces or protocols that cell phones have to adhere to.

Python on a mobile phone? Either phones are going to need to get a lot faster, or we need to start getting ready to wait 6 minutes to place a phone call.
I've been sorta bad at keeping my applications cleaned up on my Android, so I have just under 100 total applications. Not a lot of them are active all at once, and most of the ones that are active are sleeping until their specific use comes up... but even now I'm starting to experience a noticeable decline in response time. These days, my phone starts ringing but doesn't respond to me answering the call for a full two or three seconds (because it's finding / resizing a contact photo, picking a random ringtone, and getting extensive caller ID info for the call, all while it's downloading crap in the background and Lord knows what else). And these apps are written in Java.

LittleViking wrote:considering Google's love for Python, I guarantee there will be Python on Android at some point if it doesn't exist already.

Come to think of it, you could probably develop Android applications in Jython, Clojure, or Scala. Clojure in particular sounds interesting (your father's parentheses, elegant weapons).
I was referring to Symbian when I mentioned the OS war, though; and it's not as though Android and Windows Mobile don't face the same issues. Apple has a proprietary arch, though.
Suki's probably right about speed; though, as the linked comment pointed out:

you still have access to several Python C++ Extensions and there is support for developing your own c++ extensions.

Obviously, that kinda defeats the purpose of writing in python--like I said, suki's probably right.