Thread: Why do people say MeeGo is dead?
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jalyst is offline jalyst
2012-03-10 , 08:39
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#27
Originally Posted by blck View Post
Don't get me wrong, the community is doing a great work, inventing and developing things, but it's gonna be hard to be one community, if we have Maemo, MeeGo, Mer, Nemo etc etc, since all are slightly different...
Maemo5x is winding down sadly (but she's a nimble old fox, so she may creep onwards a bit longer)
Maemo6x* will soon too, given enough time w/no new devices (but it's early days, the best are still ahead of her 'touch-wood').
WebOS = no thanks.
MeeGo = MeR+Nemo/Plasma/Cordia/Place-your-UX-layer-here
Tizen = maybe (Qt may have a significant role thanks to SteelRat, but it's not the EotW if it doesn't)

In many ways WebOS + Tizen + Mozilla would be a nice fit, their core tech/libraries are quite similar.
Then again, sometimes bringing these things together can be worse than they are positive!

*AKA MeeGo-Harmattan
Last edited by jalyst; 2012-03-10 at 09:05. Reason: typo