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2008-01-28
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#11
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IMHO, Symbian is overstretched and bent to fit on some smart phones - e.g. the E90, and linux has proven that it can be very effective in a consumer environment (TomTom GO, Nokia tablets, Motorola phones), so maybe the success of the 800 & 810 will mean a proper linux smartphone from Nokia? If so, OpenMoko will need to make a leap ahead, and speed up development, as they're a long way off a general-purpose fit-for-consumer distribution.
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2008-01-28
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@ Germany - Munich
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#12
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Not sure it's a good news for commercial qt..
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2008-01-28
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#13
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I'd love to see more C++ on maemo!
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2008-01-28
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@ "Almost there!" (Monte Christo, Count of)
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Originally Posted by speculatrix
It's not Symbian that's overstretched, but rather S60. Symbian itself scales effortlessly, but S60 really never was intended for more than a tiny screen and T9 text input.
IMHO, Symbian is overstretched and bent to fit on some smart phones - e.g. the E90, and linux has proven that it can be very effective in a consumer environment (TomTom GO, Nokia tablets, Motorola phones), so maybe the success of the 800 & 810 will mean a proper linux smartphone from Nokia? If so, OpenMoko will need to make a leap ahead, and speed up development, as they're a long way off a general-purpose fit-for-consumer distribution.
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2008-01-28
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@ Germany
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Originally Posted by tvogel
C++ is a pain IMHO concerning shared libraries. This would open up dependency hell on the tablets. Please keep C++ away from the tablets.
I'd love to see more C++ on maemo!
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2008-01-28
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@ San Jose, CA
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#16
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I'm surprised we haven't heard from penguinbait yet. I bet this news will make for less effort in his KDE-on-NIT project.
I also sort of wonder, in the back of my mind, if this might lead to KDE-on-NIT (or something a lot like it) being the official Maemo GUI.
I also sort of wonder, in the back of my mind, if this might lead to KDE-on-NIT (or something a lot like it) being the official Maemo GUI.
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2008-01-28
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#17
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Originally Posted by pycage
Okay, Visual Basic then.
C++ is a pain IMHO concerning shared libraries. This would open up dependency hell on the tablets. Please keep C++ away from the tablets.
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2008-01-28
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Originally Posted by pycage
I couldn't agree more. C++ is the dullard's version of OOP in C. Better to go with Objective-C, or even just do your high level app development in a language that isn't C based at all.
C++ is a pain IMHO concerning shared libraries. This would open up dependency hell on the tablets. Please keep C++ away from the tablets.
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2008-01-28
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Another article: http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/28/news...ce=yahoo_quote
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2008-01-28
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I wonder how this affect Maemo as a whole. I guess an updated Qt library for Maemo will be released and current Qt-based apps will be easier to port. It's either that or Maemo will be replaced by KDE, which is a bit too drastic.
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