The ARM development Studio Community Edition (DS-5 CE) gives the Android community an invincible power. This puts the power at the hands of Android hackers who can now develop apps at the native level making use of ARM hardware optimizations.
ARM DS-5 CE allows hackers to program their ARM devices in C, C++ and Assembly languages. Can you imagine the impact this can potentially have.
This is the stuff the 1960s and 70s legend of Valley DYI culture is made of. Or the early Internet pioneers in India who hacked Perl and Unix shell codes to connect to the rest of the world.
It is commendable that ARM has taken this approach to giving serious developers a way to do access the native layers of their devices. That in itself will perpetuate the love for ARM and also all Android devices.
The ability to program your device
It is almost a birth-right of every serious mobile user to tinker around with the device. The ability to do this what the open source movement finds its own roots into. Just imagine the Unix or the latter Linux system not having a Bash shell -- It wouldn't even be smoke.
What I loved with my old Symbian Nokia handset was this ability to program it in a variety of languages, especially Python and Java. If you were a hardcore C++ programmer you had a better grip on these machines. I loved this environment. Then suddenly Symbian lost its way. Alas.
My common grouse with most post-modern smartphones is: Why can't they include a simple programming language (I am not naming any single language) so that the curious minds can take to program the phones the way they want.
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