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2010-03-05
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For those who "consider it a phone", that means, not really all that good. =p
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2010-03-05
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2010-03-05
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Hmm... Are you sure that's what people are saying, and not:
"We were expecting the next step to be the fifth of five steps on the way to a fully polished mass marketed Maemo. Instead it turns out the next step will be a first wobbly step on the long way to a fully polished MeeGo product, why? "
Now, I admit, MeeGo is a nice goal but somehow it feels like we're jumping from the Maemo beta to the MeeGo alpha build without having a proper RTM in between. And knowing this, some including me expect that Nokia will be focusing on adapting Harmattan towards the MeeGo frameset, which means breaking up and putting together stuff in new ways. They will simply have more to do than in a purely evolutionary update. The end result will probably be better. But they have to focus ahead and not on making things backportable. In the mean time, they will fix critical bugs on our current platform, but not add anything that doesn't fit into the MeeGo plan. So GTK+ applications will be EOLed while they rebuild the same applications in QT.
Now, the fact that they are going to develop these on the N900 platform is very positive for the more adventerous Maemo users. Very. But for those would only rely on officially supported firmware updates, IMO, there's a risk that the N900 will never be much better than it is today. For those who "consider it a phone", that means, not really all that good. =p For those who consider it a computer, it still means it has all the potential in the world, it might get an even cooler OS in a year or two.
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2010-03-05
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2010-03-05
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2010-03-05
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I think that if MeeGo will be still in alpha when the first device is launched Nokia and Intel would be committing commercial suicide and kill the project in its infancy.
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2010-03-05
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That represent again why I think the N900 has still a long way to go before being "abandoned" by Nokia. MeeGo is not ready and the first MeeGo device is not ready.
Assuming Nokia/Intel are not trying to kill anything of course. Why would they do that ? But eh ! Who are we to tell them how to run a business ?
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2010-03-05
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2010-03-06
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2) Misconceptions on software development.
Frankly, I think there is still room for improvement on the wiki page for those two points.
Will there be a development Fedora spin for developing with Qt+Qt Creator+Pyside(my interest)+SDK ? If so, Nokia will provide this or should be community driven?
I mean, everything integrated just out of box? Call me lazy but I like to have everything done for me so I wont waste tons of time setting up everything again, like I did in Ubuntu.
ps. we want ovi suite with n900 and linux support (at least me and my n900 do)